NOW! - THE PINNACLE

OF ISRAEL'S DECLINE!

has revealed
the great schism between the religious and the secular in
Israel.

Israel's
leftist, secular ruling and controlling authorities
rival the discriminating and brutal treatment of Jews by Jew-hating
German authorities under Hitler

- but
this time in their own Land!

This all to
please the Muslim appeasing President Hussein Obama and
the Jew-hating nations of the world

who knowingly or unknowingly,
oppose the Declarations of God

regarding the Inheritance of the
Promised Land by Israelites!

Is this the Revealing of the
Anti-Messiah?

Can the Almighty be stopped in His
Declared Purpose for Israel?

THE DEPORTATION IS OVER! -

BUT NOT THE DIVINE RETRIBUTION

Following the instructions of Pres. Bush,

the ruthless eviction by the Israeli government

of Jewish families from their homes in their God-given Land

was viewed on TV by the world for days!

This loathing action, using the
biggest military Peace Time concentration ever in Israel's
history, was perpetrated against its own civilians, of which
most are children. Eviction forces, many armed, outnumbered
civilians some 10-1. Militarists blame the extended preparation of
the Israel Army for this eviction of citizens as the reason for
Israel's defeat in the 2006 Lebanon war against Hezbollah
terrorists.

Millions of Bible believers across the world,

have been physically and spiritually shocked

at beholding the heartwrenching scenes on TV screens

THEN !!!!! - - - DIVINE RETRIBUTION ???

Exactly 7 days later, while
giant Israeli bulldozers were destroying the last Jewish homes in
Gush Katif, New Orleans
USA was devastated by Katrina

5 years later - June 2010 -
and the Retribution seems to continue relentlessly with the
catastrophic puncturing of an oil 'volcano' under the sea 50
miles off-shore from New Orleans - while most of the expelled Jewish
citizens are still unsettled and not compensated. Scientific
conjectures of the possible consequences of this rupture exceeds the
worst of Biblical scenarios!

BIBLE REVELATIONS - General
Comment: No doubt, the fact that "Jews are fighting each other" and
that "Israel is on a Decline" will be received as welcome news and
powerful justification of their dislike and condemnation for Jews, by the
Accusers of Israel. Those Bible believers who have also high-jacked
the Biblical Promises for 'Israel' for themselves by way of their
'Replacement Theology, will also have a field time with the information
reviewed on this Web Page. To such likes, BIBLE REVELATIONS want to
reaffirm herewith, our implicit Faith in the Divine Promise that
'God will never reject Judah' for all that she has done wrong (Ezekiel ch.
20). As with all other persecutions by the nations which Israel has
had to endure throughout the ages, this current Decline is merely
another corrective exercise applied by the Most High. That Israel
shall endure and survive on the other side, remains as sure as God's Will
and Word is infallible. Read more about this in the Commentary on
the following Web Page:

What the current developments in
Israel and in the world do confirm, is that the establishment of God's
Kingdom on earth, through the birth pangs of world turmoil and chaos as
foretold in the Bible and as reported on in the other Pages on this Web Site, must be closer than ever before.

BRUTAL HISTORIC EXPULSION OF JEWS REPEATED TODAY IN ISRAEL

Expulsion of Jews from the lands of their exile occurred often in history.

The current planned expulsion of 1800 Jewish families from Gush Katif, is unmatched in absurdity - this time, executed not by their Jew espising foreign nation hosts where they have been exiled, but by their
own government in their own Land - all Jewish!. In compliance with
the USA suggested 'Road Map' Peace Plan, these people will be
forcibly removed from their homes, farms, businesses, schools and social
environments in Gush Katif, Israel, after which the area, complete with
developed infrastructure, will be handed over to the Palestinian
authority. With D-day (15 August 2005) only 6 weeks away, no firm
and acceptable counter option of conducting a similar life style is on the
drawing boards.

Gush Katif is a strip of land bordering Gaza where
21 Jewish Settlements have turned the desert to bloom, as ancient Biblical
Prophecy predicts. It boasts some of the highest developed Green House
farming projects in Israel, and indeed, in the world. It is close to
Yamit, another area which was similarly evacuated and demolished by Israel
in 1981. The internationally promoted reason for Yamit's handover,
was "to prevent it from becoming the nucleus of a potentially hostile city
on Israel's border". Today, it is part of the Gaza center of a
Palestinian terrorist hell-hole.

Israel's government, has been leaning over
backwards to appease the anti-Semite nations of the world who are pushing
for erecting, according to the Road Map Peace Plan, a Palestinian State to
share the Biblically "Promised Land" with the Israelites, by creating
"two viable, secure states living in peace side
by side" This alternative Plan,
created by the rulers of the world who have pushed the Bible with its God
on the back burner, is in direct opposition to the Biblically recorded
Divine Plan of the Creator God of Israel, Who has promised this contested
land area in the Middle East (with Jerusalem as its Capitol),
specifically to the Israelites, descendents of Isaac and Jacob - and
not to their brothers, Ishmael and Esau (the Arabs).

Accordingly, Israel's so-called 'rightist'
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made a complete about turn from the
mandate which he was voted for, and in dictatorial style, matching
Hitler's disenfranchisement of Jews in Germany, he is passing on the
Jewish Settlers' hard earned farms and infrastructures to their Arab
enemies. Divine Providence ensures that it is no co-incidence that
the Israeli government promulgated the Disengagement Law on the
anniversary of the historic expulsion of the Jews from Spain by the
Spanish Royalty (16 Feb. 2005). The dire circumstances which faced
thousands of Spanish Jews, were identical to what the 9000 residents of
Gush Katif today face. The Spanish Jews were forced to abandon their homes and the farms
that they had developed. Entire families, including women and
children, had to leave behind the place they were born in and grew
up. Adults who had not lived anywhere else were forced to rebuild
their lives in other places. They could take with them only a few
things, and the property that they were leaving behind was taken by the
local powers. Successful communities were spread all over and they
did not continue as communities. Nothing was left of one of the most
developed and productive Jewish centres except for memory and pain.
Similarly, Gush Katif today, has raised farms from the desert
which produce 70% of Israel's green vegetables of export quality. Also
nurseries which provide plants for all of Israel and other specialty
agricultural products in vast hot-house tunnel farming which, after the
Jews have been forcibly removed by their own government, will go to
the Palestinians who have been pelting Gush Katif with an average of 5000
Katusha rockets p.a.

The initial date selected by the Israeli
government for the expulsion from Gush Katif also co-incided with the
somber annual Jewish commemorative Day, the 9th of Av, and had therefore
to be postponed to 15th August, the day after. On this day,
centuries apart in history, both the Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed -
the last of these, in 30 CE, causing the death of a million Jewish lives!

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE

EXPULSION OF JEWS PLAN

No more apprehending Palestinian
terrorists, As 'a gesture of goodwill' towards the Palestinians,
required of Israel by the US authorities, Israel would not retaliate to
the unending Palestinian killing of Jewish civilians

No Jail for Palestinian terrorists,In
compliance with the 'Road Map' for Peace, derived by the Bush
administration and backed by the nations, Israel has released 900
Palestinians jailed for taking part in terrorist attacks on
Israelis. In his meeting with Sharon in June 2005, Abbas laid down
further conditions for Palestinian participation - the release of ALL
Palestinian detainees, even those "with Israeli blood on their
hands".

No more home demolitions of PA terrorist's homes [Announced Feb 15, 2005],

No more operations to search and seize illegal weapons and weapons factories.

No more stopping weapons tunnels and smuggling.

Dismantling of Road block patrol points, a
highly efficient system manned by the Israeli army to intercept would-be
Palestinian suicide bombers on their suicide murder missions to the
Israel interior. Even in these days of a so-called 'cease fire' by
Hamas, such intending mass murder terrorists are being stopped almost
daily.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah members
will be permitted to move into Gush Katif.

Logistic Plans of the infrastructure of
Gush Katif are to be handed over to the Palestinian enemies of the
Jewish State long before the 'disengagement'.

The EU, UN, Russia,
IMF and the USA will give billions of dollars in an Aid Package to the new Palestinian
Arab residents of Gush Katif and Shomron.

The World
Bank will not pay Jewish
Settlers Property Owners, but twill instead pay the
Sharon Israeli Government (Sharon, Mofaz, Mazuz, Peres, Sarid) for
Jewish Farms and Homes, and "Sell" give the Jewish property to the PA,
making the Jewish transfer to Palestinians irreversible [It will be legally
Palestinian Land for the first time in history] and enriching the Left and the PA. Jewish
property rights will have been defiled by its leaders.

The Sharon
government will confiscate the Jewish Property from the Jewish
owners and transfer the Jews, and give them 10% of the value of the confiscated property,
homes farms, businesses, relocation costs. Those who
oppose transfer will face confiscation and a fine of US $40 000

Forcible tactics with the handling of Jewish protestors and demonstrators,

Jail for Jewish Demonstrators - amongst several hundreds, arrested for blocking road ways,
were 3 teen age girls, aged 14, who have been jailed for weeks, some
even in solitary confinement. The Sharon government then
threatened these families with removal of their children,at the
same time, Sharon released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who were
involved in attacks on Israelis..

Jail for Jews who refuse to be transferred, Detention centers have
been prepared where even whole families could be held in detention.

Jail without trial for vocal opponents of
Sharon, Mofaz and Mazuz,

Confiscation without compensation of Jewish homes of Jews
who refuse transfer, or will not voluntarily sign over their homes
to the Sharon government, or will not quietly walk out
the door the day of transfer.

Demolition of Jewish Synagogues in Jewish
Settlements.

A Special Military Force made up of
exclusively secular, non-Jewish IDF and Police is being trained to act
solely against their fellow citizens to forcefully transfer them. There
will be four Special Forces personnel to every
Jewish "Settler" citizen.

9 Aug. Defense Ministry Director Amos
Yaron indicated that 2 842 Gush Katif and northern Samaria homes
will be destroyed. 287 public buildings, it seems will
be left as they are. (Guysen.Israël.News).

Previous reports confirmed that 38 synagogues will be blown up.

Israel's historic 'unilateral'
retreat from Gaza and northern Samaria is slated to begin August
17 After 'Disengagement'
there will not be a Jew left in the 380 square kilometres of the
Gaza Strip and a 770 sq.km. section of the northern West Bank of
Israel.

The plan dubbed "Brothers United"(!) is claimed by senior Israeli Defense Force (IDF)
officers to be the most massive endeavour undertaken by the defence
establishment in a generation.

Israel captured the Gaza Strip in
the first two days of the 1967 Miracle Six Day War
with a brigade of tanks and a brigade of paratroopers. For the evacuation
from Gaza, it has planned for more than 25,000 soldiers in three
reinforced divisions.

The Defence Ministry
is contracting thousands of civilian trucks and heavy equipment. The IDF
will reoccupy swaths of Palestinian cities and towns as a pre-emptive move
to smother attempts to fire on the operation and will turn the area around
the Gaza Strip into a huge army base.

Some
NIS 1.5 billion has been earmarked for the disengagement.

The Disengagement area of Gush Katif in Gaza will be declared
a closed military zone, to stop ordinary Israeli
civilians from entering the area to oppose the forcible removal of Jews
from their homes, businesses, farms, synagogues, schools and
graveyards. The IDF (Israel Defence Forces)
will seal it on land and the Navy will blockade it from the sea so
that no unauthorized person can enter.
Rroadblocks will be erected about 40 days prior to the beginning of
the evacuation.

According to a government decision, it will be considered
illegal for any Israeli citizen to remain in the Gaza Strip

According to the original plan, policemen will undertake the
actual physical evacuation, with the army providing protection. But since
the police have a shortage of female officers, the army will supply female
soldiers.

How will it happen?

The
Ministry of Defence has contracted to bring in
scores of cranes and hundreds of tractor-trailers and heavy bulldozers.
Under the plan, each settler family will get two shipping containers for
their belongings. If the diehards refuse to pack, civilian contractors
will do so after the residents are evacuated. These containers will then
be transported to large holding pens to be set up.

In 1982, it took some 2,000 truckloads to
transport possessions of the residents of Yamit. Now, many thousands are
expected to haul out the dismantled equipment and possessions from
Gaza.

Under the four-week evacuation plan, the IDF is planning for
a continuous evacuation of three or four settlements at a time, depending
on the opposition encountered.

One option is to go after the heart
first, the most symbolic and potentially difficult block, with the expectation that when it falls, the rest
will crumble. Others argue for evacuating the less confrontational
settlements first, as this will, at least initially, project an image of
success.

The main impact of cutting the time of the pullout plan is
that there is now a need for a larger battle order, as more settlements
will have to be evacuated simultaneously. This would require the IDF to
use soldiers to directly evacuate the settlers, something it has been
trying to avoid, since such a divisive issue could spark actual refusal by
troops.

Source:THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 31, 2005

The Price
tag for disowning 9000 Jews

On 17 August
2005 Israel will carry out its disengagement initiative. handing over all
of Gaza and part of the West Bank to the Palestinians, making it the first
country in modern history to give up land acquired in a defensive war.
During this summer’s pullout:

100% of the Gaza Strip will be
evacuated and handed over to the Palestinians.

300 square miles of
the West Bank will be evacuated.

21 Israeli settlements will be
uprooted in the Gaza Strip.

4 Israeli settlements will be uprooted
in the West Bank.

48 graves in the Gush Katif Cemetery, including
six graves of area residents murdered by terrorists, will be uprooted.

9,000 is the approximate number of Israelis, in 1,700 Israeli
families, currently living in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. All
of them will be moved out as part of the withdrawal.

2842 homes
will be destroyed and the rubble removed at Israel's expense

38 synagogues
will be blown up in the Gaza Strip.

287 public
buildings will be left for the Palestinians.

5,000
school-age children will need to find new schools.

42 daycare
centers will be closed in the Gaza Strip.

36 kindergartens will be
closed in the Gaza Strip.

7 elementary schools will be closed in
the Gaza Strip.

3 high schools will be closed in the Gaza
Strip.

320 mobile homes, ordered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
will serve as temporary housing for settlers, with approximately 300
additional mobile homes to be ordered in the future.

45,000 Israeli
soldiers and policemen are expected to participate in the Gaza
withdrawal.

$1.7 billion is the approximate cost to the Israeli
government for the withdrawal initiative.

166 active Israeli
farmers will be moved out of Gaza.

800 cows, comprising the second
largest dairy farm in Israel, will be moved out of Gush Katif.

$120
million in flowers and produce exported annually from Gush Katif will be
lost.

1 zoo, the "Katifari," that houses hundreds of animals will
be moved.

10,000 people employed in agriculture and related
industries in Gush Katif, including 5,000 Palestinians, will need new
employment.

60% of Israel's cherry tomato exports come from the
Gaza Strip. Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza will extinguish this economic
resource.

3.5 million square meters (almost 1,000 acres) of
greenhouses will be abandoned in Gaza.

70% of Israel's organic
produce is currently produced in Gaza. This is another economic resource
that will be lost.

60% of the herbs exported from Israel come from
Gush Katif.

15% of Israel's agricultural exports originate in Gaza
– exports that will be lost following Israel’s withdrawal from
Gaza.

$360,000 is the approximate average compensation amount
Israel expects to pay to relocate each family.

$870 million is the
approximate cost for Israel to facilitate the resettlement of former West
Bank and Gaza residents elsewhere in the country.

$500 million is
the amount of money Israel’s security establishment will spend in order to
relocate Israel Defense Forces bases outside the Gaza Strip and build new
border crossing facilities.

After the withdrawal: 430,000 West
Bank Palestinians will be able to move freely within and between
Palestinian controlled areas.

0 Israelis, dead or alive, will
remain in Gaza.

1.2 million Arabs will remain full and legal
citizens of Israel. All Israeli citizens – Christians, Muslims, and Jews –
have freedom of speech, religion, press, and the right to vote.

1.3
million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, many of them in Palestinian
Authority-controlled refugee camps, will be able to live under their own
leaders.

820,000 JEWISH refugees, FORCED to flee without
their belongings from ARAB countries between 1947 and 1949, will still
have no compensation for their losses from Arab governments.

650,000 Arab refugees who left Israel between 1947 and 1949
will still need Palestinian leaders who will end terrorism and the culture
of hate.

Israel’s withdrawal from four northern West Bank
Settlements will create an area more than twice the size of Gaza’s 140
square miles under Palestinian control and devoid of any Israeli presence.

Source: The Israel Project

IMAGINE! ....

Source:
http://www.dis-engage.org/blog/ModeratorsCorner

Imagine that
you live in Israel, which has suffered 25,500 known terror attacks just
since 2000, including 6000 rockets just on your small section of Gush
Katif, and instead of attacking the Arab enemy, the government attacks
you.

Imagine that
your teenage children are arrested for handing out orange ribbons on
street corners and when you see the police choking them and bashing them
with brass knuckles and you come to their aid, you, too, are arrested
and charged with harming the police officers who arrested you.

Imagine that
you and your friends come to Kfar Maimon to peacefully protest this
outrage and that the government sends 20,000 soldiers and police (the
same number President Bush sent to invade Iraq) to encircle the area
with barbed wire, creating a virtual prison camp.

Imagine that
it is August 1, 2005 and you are to be evicted from your home on August
15 and you have no idea where to go.

Imagine that
you’ve been told that you will be allowed to take enough possessions out
of your home to fill two small containers and that the rest must be left
behind.

Imagine that
you live in a beautiful eight-room home of your dreams with five
bathrooms and that you will, at best, be given a cramped caravan which
leaks in the winter rains and is sweltering in the summer.

Imagine
trying to decide between your piano and your washing machine, between
your books and the beds, between your sofa and your dining room table
between your clothing and your photo albums.

Imagine that
you discuss with your neighbors whether you will lock yourself in your
home and make the arresting officers bash the door down, in which case
you will forfeit all government compensation or walk silently to the bus
which will take you to a detention center, or be dragged out of your
home as a way of passively protesting this atrocity.

Imagine that
you discuss with your spouse whether the children should have to see you
being dragged out of the only home they have ever known or if it is
better to have them sent away.

Imagine that
your son/husband/neighbor is an army officer or policeman and it is
their duty to drag you to the waiting buses.

Imagine that
the Israeli press ignores your plight, except to refer to you and your
neighbors as fanatical hooligans who have stolen the land you live on.

Imagine that
you have lived in a community for 10, 20, 30 years, have been productive
and independent and that you will soon be unemployed, a burden on the
state, a humiliated and broken welfare recipient.

Imagine that
you walk around your precious community, knowing that your home,
synagogue, mikvah, community center, schools and health centers will be
soon be bulldozed into oblivion.

Imagine
having to go from a home with a huge backyard, filled with flowers and
fruit trees to some cramped apartment in a strange city.

Imagine
having to leave your children and grandchildren who could easily run
next door to visit you and whom you will now see only rarely.

Imagine that
the government is spending $7 billion dollars to deport you and your
neighbors, forfeiting the $2 billion a year earned by the Gush Katif
population and that the money for this expulsion plan was taken by
slashing pensions for the elderly, closing schools and hospitals,
reducing health services, reducing the sick and the handicapped to
begging, sending 37,000 abused children were sent back to abusive homes
since there was no money to keep them in state dormitories, canceling
summer programs for children - and then you are blamed for all this
pain.

Imagine that
well known rabbis, teachers and community leaders suddenly disappear and
that you are told that they are being held in prison indefinitely and
being treated in a most brutal manner.

Imagine that
the government declares war on Judaism, closing down radio stations that
used to disseminate inspiring words of Torah, closing down religious
councils, cutting off support for religious schools and institutions,
threatening rabbis who disagree with government policy and firing
government workers who protest.

Imagine that
even before the 25 communities of Gush Katif are destroyed, that the
“Peace Now” Organization hands over a list of 180 Jewish settlements in
the Shomron to the Israeli Supreme Court to be destroyed, claiming that
the land was stolen from the Palestinians.(Editor - if you have been led
to believe this accusation, then please acquaint yourself with the facts
at:http://www.revelations.org.za/Islam.htm
)

Imagine that
Hamas has already announced that there will be massive parades
throughout Gush Katif celebrating their victory over the Jewish people.

Imagine that
the whole world will watch as terrorists take over these communities and
think that Jews are the stupidest idiots in the world.

Now, Imagine
that you hear HaShem Himself saying:

My beloved
people, imagine that this is a test of faith, which I offer you out of
love, so that you can know your own greatness.

Imagine that
I am sifting out the righteous from the evil.

Imagine that
these experiences are going to develop iron faith and that this is the
only thing that will keep you from going insane.

Imagine
knowing that whatever happens is necessary and ultimately good.

Imagine that
evil is necessary in order to give you opportunities to develop and
demonstrate your spiritual powers – kindness, self-discipline, courage,
integrity, gratitude, humility and faith.

Imagine that
in a world without evil, words like treachery, slander, egotism,
arrogance, blackmail or betrayal would have no meaning. Integrity is
never painless. Here is your opportunity to develop it.

Imagine that
I am a Master Puppeteer. Behind the screen on which these events are
projected to form what seems like an insane, unjust and terrifying
reality, there is another reality. I am cheering for you to make
the right choices. I am a loving G-d. Sometimes, you need to
imagine this.

(Editor: Imagine that your house is destined to become
part of a housing complex for the Palestinian workers of a Casino which
Sharon in cahoots with his financial cronies intends to build on the Holy Land from which you have been forcibly evicted with your loved ones).

Sinceprotest demonstrations started one year ago and the colour orange
was chosen for banners and ribbons to distinguish the protest, the
prominent role played by children in attending the demonstration meetings
all over Israel, waving orange flags and banners, was very
noticeable. As webmaster of this Web Site, I commented on this
phenomenon and referred to the determination reflected in photos of these
young, open faces, which decorated the front pages of the mostly scoffing
newspapers.

The impressive gathering of 100 000 people who
braved the rough summer and semi-desert conditions, trekking to Kfar
Maimon (refer report elsewhere on this Page) where they were placed under
siege in a barbed wire enclosed concentration camp, boasted as much as 60%
being teenagers and young children!

Now while this may give reason for those who wave
the blue ribbons (approvers of deportation) to condemn the opposition to
the Disengagement, the news here in Israel abounds with the heroic actions
and viewpoints of children. Many children as young as 12 and 14 are in
jail for attending demonstrations, some in solitary confinement, being
refused mattresses, clean clothes, water to wash, religious worship, being
accused of "being a threat to the safety of the State of Israel"
because of their religious ideologies! Subsequent reports tell of
how these children got hardened criminals (amongst whom these children
have been locked up) to turn to prayer with them. Most of them
refused to accept terms of refraining from protest in order to be released
and chose to remain in jail. "We are compelled not to give in", one
14 yr old said.

These attitudes and conviction of children
encourage their parents and other protestors - clearly a fulfillment of
Biblical Prophecy in Malachi 4:6 (alt 3:24) of how the hearts of children
and fathers will be turned to each other "before the Great and Terrible
Day of God." Sharon in planning his cruel eviction of honourable
citizens for the summer months, never realized that it would fall in the
long summer holidays when these determined youngsters would join
cumbersome but also exciting protest gatherings, rather than going to the
beach, watching TV or gathering in shopping malls.

SUMMARY AND
CONCLUSION

- a BIBLE REVELATIONS
Commentary

The
degrading treatment and bedeviling of the religious core of Jewish
citizens in their own Land and by their own government and media,
aptly summarises the absurd situation which has developed over the last
few months in Israel. Many
of these people (but certainly not all), happen to be settlers of the
disputed territories of Israel. These territories have been labeled by the
Arabs and the world as 'occupied territories' - 'occupied' indeed by the
Israelis in the Miracle Six Day War of June 1967, when Israel was attacked
from every direction, on every border front, by neighbouring Arab
countries under their blood curdling Islamic threats of killing every
Israeli Jew off to the last person.

No serious believer of the true
context of the Bible (and this includes Christians and Muslims of whom
there are many in these enlightening times), needs to be convinced
that this disputed land is and always has been the Land promised in the
Bible by God with a Divine Oath, to Israel and the Jews (Yechzekel
ch 20 etc etc etc). The Jewish Israeli
government has now turned on this religious sector, which
believes in these Divine Promises
and who are expecting and looking forward to the Coming of their
Messiah. Prime
minister Sharonbetrayed his electorate by
joining forces with the Israeli left and the international political
left. The
prospect of a reigning Messiah in a universal Kingdom centered in
Jerusalem, must hold a great threat to his and their political power
bases. These leftists, universally,
generally deny the existence of a
Living Creator God and His Divine Purpose for the Land of Israel and its
people - a Promise which extends to all those Christian and Muslim 'Zionists', who love the land of Israel and its Jewish population and who
faithfully believe in the Divine Promises to Israel and the
Jews.

Suddenly all the Prophecies regarding the anti-Messiah (Antichrist)
is taking proper shape. Whereas Christianity and Messianism (generally) expects ithis evil power
to be a ‘Christian’ false Messiah who will persecute Christians,
the Scriptures, like in
all other aspects, firstly apply to, and relate to
the Israelites and the Land of Israel (as
represented today by the Jews). The anti-Messiah therefore,
should similarly be expected to have an Israel-origin, persecuting
Jewish religious believers and opposing the coming, true 'Jewish' Messiah.

Thus Sharon and his government and the leftists fulfil the
Prophecies regarding ‘Anti-Messiah’ by their
planning to persecute, demoralize and expel Jews who claim the ‘Zionistic’
Promises of the Bible, from their homes, businesses and farms.
Sharonand the majority of the leftists in
Israel, vehemently denounce these ‘Messianics’ (Jews awaiting
the Coming of their Messiah) as “fundamentalists
who are dangerous to the Peace and future of the Land. “ In this way
Sharon has set himself up as a virtual dictator
over the ‘Chosen of God’, thereby vehemently
opposing the settlement of the Land in preparation for the Coming of
Messiah to rule over the world from Jerusalem. Sharon has
chosen to side with the leftist international
world leaders, the majority of whom are openly
anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian.

Photo slide show of Gush Katif

And these photos do not tell
half the story:

- of how Gush Katif was
developed in a semi desert - fulfilling a Bible
Prophecy

- of how Gush Katif produces 70%
of Israel's table greens

- of miles and miles of hot
house structures producing export quality plants and
produce

- of modern office and shopping
infrastructure

Judge
for yourself from the high
standard of the many synagogues photographed in this selection of photos,
which undoubtedly represent a highly developed society - not as the media
portray, radical, backward, extremist settler types. These
synagogues will all be demolished by Sharon's 'Jewish' government which
just seems to have a mania for destroying Jewish synagogues and what
these represent.

Inspiring
testimonies and life stories of the people whom Sharon, the leftists and
the media, morally smirch and bedevil, even using government planted
provocateurs and operating from within the ranks of the protestors,
as leaders and organizers, with the purpose of derailing, confusing
and diluting the opposition against the disfranchisement of Jewish
citizens in their own homeland.

BIBLE
REVELATIONS Comment - To understand the inconsistencies in the reactions
of the participants to the 'Road Map' Peace Plan and their supporters and
promoters, one has to consider their strategy, as proven by these
developments in the Countdown as reported on this
Page:

- In order to
reach their goals, they have to keep the public
uninformed

- they have
to bulldoze their way through against all and any sober
opposition

- they
have to use the means of distortion and
misinformation

It is the
contention of this Web Site, that one can retain sane and proper direction
by following the Guidance and Guidelines of the Bible only - and then,
properly interpreted. This in itself is a highly contentious issue -
you will have to judge for yourself.

The
contents of the rest of this comprehensive Web Site will go far in
assisting you to know what the True Guidelines of the Bible and the
Creator God are. Refer Site Indexes off the Main Page summaries of
contents.

24 June
2005

Middle East Peace rated as world's Top
Priority

British Foreign secretary Straw at a recent meeting of the Quartet (the
group of nations pushing for the execution of the Road Map Peace
Plan), stated:

"There's no higher international priority
than the Middle East peace process, however we've got six weeks before
disengagement and it's essential that both the Israeli Government
and the Palestinian Authority intensify their cooperation with one another
to make a success of this major step towards two viable, secure states
living in peace side by side."

This political statement totally ignores any
claims or Promises made by the Creator God of Israel via the Bible.
Gaza, of which area Gush Katif forms part, is specifically
mentioned in the Torah as being part of the Land of Judah: Joshua
11:23; 15:21,47; 18:7

The question
that remains to be answered, is whether God will allow the withdrawal of
Israel from Land that Judah had been given as a Divine
Inheritance.

27 June
2005

TERROR GROUPS TO MOVE OFFICES FROM LEBANON AND SYRIA TO GAZA AFTER
PULL-OUT

Source: The Lekarev Report

Palestinian officials confirmed yesterday
that leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in Lebanon and
Syria are planning to move to the Gaza Strip after Israel evacuates the
area. The sources said Palestinian Authority officials have been urging
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who spends most of his time in Damascus, to
consider moving his office to the Gaza Strip after the completion of the
Israeli withdrawal. Mashaal's deputy, Musa Abu Marzouk, and another senior
Hamas official, Imad al-Alami, are reported to have expressed their desire
to move from Syria to the Gaza Strip.

Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported over the
weekend that PA Civil Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan, who is in charge
of coordinating the withdrawal with Israel, has invited the Hamas leaders
to move to the Gaza Strip. According to the newspaper, Dahlan's invitation
came following US pressure on Syria to close down the offices and bases of
Hamas and other Palestinian radical groups.

Dahlan is the "nice-looking young man" who
has been touted in the west as a 'moderate' and someone to be trusted. Now he is the one inviting
Hamas and the PLO to set up shop in Gaza with the
approval of top Palestinian Authority officials.
At the same time that we are told the Abbas is 'fighting' to
keep control of Gaza out of the hands of Hamas.
It doesn't add up - a terrorist in a
pin-striped suit is still a terrorist!

In the aftermath of last week's protests in
Israel against the forcible government removal of Israelis from their
homes and farms in Gush Katif, reports are streaming in of eye-witness
observations of police force brutality against peaceably protesting
Jews - refer video clip below. Several commentators also
pointed out how the authorities, supported by the media, rigged the entire
operation (and others last week) to present the peaceful demonstrators as
"far rightist, fanatic hooligan elements which gravely endanger the
society."

The following extracts have been drawn from
such reports and the video clip confirms the police brutality referred to
herein. The normal media obviously shun these reports and support
the ridiculous claims of Sharon, including the so-called 'lynching' of a
Palestinian by 'revolutionary Jewish youths." As webmaster, I have
personally seen these rigged TV reports. What intrigued me at the
time, was, that while there was no blood seen on the Palestinian who was
so-called stoned, a camera shot which clearly reflected the bloodied,
seriously wounded face of an Israeli soldier, was never ever referred to
again by the media who afterwards hysterically promoted the rejection of
the 'lynching of a Palestinian by Jews'. It is tragic to see how the
Israeli government and the media are using the exact pattern of the lying,
distorted and rigged Palestinian media propaganda against Israel, to apply
it to a sector of their own citizens!

Following are extracts from eye-witness
reports and commentators:

"There are ten soldiers and
policemen for every kid. I see them dragging the children by their
legs. I see them putting a young girl in a head hold.

Who are these people who are running my
country? I didn't elect them. I voted for those who promised to support
Gush Katif, to fight terrorism. I sent my son to the army to shoulder arms
and risk his young life to protect his people, not drag them kicking and
screaming out of their homes. Not to mount a little war against a bunch of
miserable teenagers."

Police Caught on Video Beating
Demonstrator

A gang of policemen cruelly beating a
road-blocking protestor last Wednesday night was caught on an Arutz-7
video camera.

On Wednesday night, June
29, Arutz-7's Russian-language site's director Tuvia Lerner set out for the Gush Dan-Tel Aviv area,
with the aim of covering the scheduled anti-disengagement road-blocking
protests set for that night. At one point, he was standing at the main
thoroughfare in RamatGan,
Jabotinsky Blvd., when he saw what he
later described as a "cruel, shocking and pre-meditated attack by
policemen." Lerner said that despite attempts by the police to hide it by
standing tightly around, he managed to film it on an amateur digital
camera.

"I saw a demonstrator lying on the road,
with three Yasamnikim [special unit policemen
used for missions that require extra force - ed.] sitting on him, bending
his arms, and putting handcuffs on him. There is no doubt that a man in
this position is totally neutralized and cannot endanger anyone.

"Through the screen of my
camera I saw the officer go behind the demonstrator, go on top of him, and
stick his full hand towards his face. He stuck his fingers into the man's
nostrils and pulled upwards and backwards in a fast and professional way,
and tore his whole face, including a blow at his eyes.

"There were many other
press photographers on the scene. No one else filmed this very hard scene.
But what worries me more than anything is that I gave the material to the
three main television channels - Channel 1 (Israel Broadcasting
Authority), Channel Two and Channel Ten - and none of them showed real
interest in receiving it.

The demonstrator, named Akiva, told Arutz-7 what happened
from his point of view. His story (paraphrased):"They handcuffed me and dragged me to the
truck, and then to the police station. I asked for medical assistance,
they said OK, but didn't give me. After about two hours, they wanted to
give me water to wash off the blood, but I said I didn't want them to wash
it off until a doctor sees me. A few of us [arrestees] were there
together, and we were talking, and the policemen said to be quiet. I said
that they can't take away our right to speak. One guy looked at me as if
he was about to kill me and said, 'Is that so?' or something like that. He
then took me into a side room where there was a bunch of policemen and
they all started beating me up. Punches to the head,
kicks, everything, while at the same time, one of them was trying
to put handcuffs on me. When they finished, they sat me on a chair, with
my hands handcuffed behind me, and one guy started slapping and punching
me in my face and head with all his strength. I of course couldn't defend
myself. It was just like one long terrible painful hurt; I couldn't feel
each individual punch...

"I don't know why, but I
still didn't shut up; when he finished, I said, 'I'll see you in Machash [the Complaints Against Policemen Department]. He looked at me again
and started beating me up again - and then a third time. He even gored me
with his head against my head one time."

They finally photographed
me, and then, at 1 AM, just let me go, just like that."

On June 30 the army shut down Gush
Katif. It became officially a “closed military area’. No cars were allowed
in or out of Gush Katif. No cars were allowed to travel between
settlements in Gush Katif.

The troops in combat gear forcefully
removed Jewish mothers, children, infants and a group of visiting, crying
teenagers. Thousands of troops were used in this operation. Hundreds of
troops cordoned off the roads leading to Gush Katif and hundreds more
barricaded each settlement.

In twenty minutes this ‘daring’
operation was over. Troops dragged and carried moms, children and babies
to waiting buses. The buses then ferried the hapless residents of the
hotel to a dusty road some forty kilometers away where they were deposited
without food, drink or transportation to make their way home.

(This area is part of the Negev desert
area where temperatures now reach in the 30's daily. Being without water
in the open for an extended period is a recipe for death - Ed)

.

The army and government declared a major
victory in the war against the right-wing, radical, extremist
settlers.

The local and world media were out in
force to cover this historic event – a dress rehearsal for the eventual
evacuation of every family in Gush Katif.

We are now
able, in retrospect, to review the happenings of the Protest March to Gush
Katif.

The march was
to start on Monday 18th July, from Netivot, a Negev town some 20 Km
from the Kissufim military passage point into Gush Katif (refer Map
above). Notwithstanding the Israeli Police illegal blockade of buses
taking protestors to Netivot (refer news item directly above), some
10 000 protestors managed to reach Netivot for the opening
ceremonies. From here, at night, the crowd marched to a small
village, Kfar Maimon some 7 Km away which were to be the 1st stop on the
road to Kissufim.

Over the next 3 days, Kfar Maimon was
turned into a barbed wire, fenced concentration camp for the
marchers by some 20 000 police and army personnel - which is the
same number of combat soldiers that the USA used in war action to
overthrow Saddam Hussein! All entry roads to Kfar Maimon
were blockaded by the police.

This did not stop
protestors from reaching Kfar Maimon. The peacefully protesting
crowd swelled to some 40 000 to 50 000, many arriving at this rural semi
desert spot on foot, under the glaring desert sun and via dusty farm
tracks, even through the night, with back packs and sleeping
gear. The protestors included a majority of young people and
children, but also people of all ages, and a great proportion of mothers
with toddlers. The Israeli leaders and commanders, fearing a mass
break out of the camp, on Tuesday encircled the fenced in village
with fully armed troops and police, standing 2-3 men deep most places and
additional troops hanging around in small groups. The minister of
defense instructed his officers to take whatever means to stop the
protestors from marching to Gush Katif. Mounted police were brought
in and water cannons were parked on stand-by. These frantic and draconic
siege measures included a police blockade on food and water and the
removal of all ambulances services to the now greatly overcrowded village,
normally home to a few hundred people only. Inside the camp
though, the atmosphere resembled a music festival and religious
conference. People were dwelling around, conversing with friends and
troops through the barbed wire fences, exactly as in a concentration
camp.

Sharon's "enemies" -
The above photos from Yahoo gallery tells an
amazing but sad story - as worded by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
<bernards@sbcglobal.net> -

"SHARON (Israeli PM), PERES (Ass. PM),
MOFAZ (Min. of Defence) AND MAZUZ HAVE NEVER SENT 20,000 TROOPS TO
ACT AGAINST THE

PA TERRORISTS TO GUARANTEE THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF
THEIR CITIZENS. CAN THEIR NEED FOR POWER BE SO STRONG THAT IT ALLOWS THEM
TO MISUSE THE ARMY AGAINST THEIR OWN CITIZENS TO FULFILL THEIR CORRUPT
AIMS AND THOSE OF FOREIGN LEADERS?"

Editor's Note
- In the entire USA
Invasion force in Iraq in 2003, only 20 000 troops actually participated
in combat operations. While 6 combat battalions of Israeli troops
were engaged at Kfar
Maimon with instructions to "lay siege on their own family members", no
military retaliation was employed against Palestinians in
neighbouring Gaza, after more than 100 rockets were fired on Gush Katif
and neighbouring Israeli towns in the last few days - tantamount to a
declaration of war in any other country.

The unbelievable achievement of the
gathering protestors against the disenfranchisement of Gush Katif Jews, is
that this great number of people took the trouble to travel from all over
Israel, as far away as 200 Km., braved the 40 degrees desert heat, facing
few or no normal facilities of bathing and food.

On Thursday 21 July, while the normal media
splashed the 'crumbling' of the Protest Walk, 1000 protestors did manage
to enter Gush Katif.

It is very possible that the leadership of
the March has been infiltrated by people who worked against any possible
success, from the inside. This was quite evident from the fact that
the promised 'sign' for breaking through the police cordon never
came.

As Webmaster of this Web Site, I can
personally verify the above situation which I observed at Kfar Maimon on
Tuesday. We reached the village by car, via back-roads through the
farming fields from Netivot. It was like a war zone, with cops and
soldiers encircling the enclosure like ants. Military vehicles were
all over, in all sizes and shapes. Police stood 10-man deep to block
the main gate to what mow no longer seemed to be a village, but a
concentration camp. Inside, the 'prisoners' milled around and ganged
up against the gate and barbed wire fence.

Blank faced police would not answer my
astonishment and questions why this was "a war" of such outsized
proportions on civilians, mostly women and children, while from 10
Km further away, the Palestinians were showering rockets not only on Gush
Katif, but also on settlements within Israel territory - like Sederot, 5
Km away from Kfar Maimon, without any retaliation from the Israeli army!
If any such retaliation would take place, it would be on vacant
Palestinian buildings, or the pinpoint shooting of 1 or 2 known terrorists
and a return to base.

Outside the gate a large crowd and constant
newcomers mingled with the police and soldiers. I was puzzled by the fact
that the police after some hours allowed people to enter and leave the
camp through a gap in the fence, right next to the main gate - while only
meters further, another gap in the fence was constantly guarded by
soldiers, blocking it shoulder to shoulder - while the 'prisoners'
milled around inside and scuffled inside the gate. From remarks
reported later, it seems that the protestors were told by their leaders to
await a sign to leave the camp en masse through the gates - which never
transpired. Meanwhile they could have quietly and calmly singled out
with the crowd via the open gap in the fence, and started their walk
towards Gush Katif. In retrospect, and as some commentators now
suggest, it seems that the protesting crowd was manipulated by their own
leadership, in compliance with the extravagant whims and orders of the
police. To the credit of the Protest organizers, the media
reporting of the events resulted in revealing the true and upright nature
of the protestors. Whereas up to now, the protestors were
tainted by the media as the scum of the earth and a 'danger to Israeli
society', the reports and TV images now reflected the truth, of tens
of thousands of protestors locked behind barbed wire fences, well behaved,
meek and mild, sharing treats and drinks with their captors.

While by week's end, most protestors will
file home (at the suggestion of their leadership), there are indications
that a good core of the crowd remain insistent to find their way into Gush
Katif in support of their brothers who face eviction from their homes and
farms shortly.

Channel 10
Israel TV on Friday night aired its video footage depicting Negev police
commander Brigadier-General Miso Shacham. Speaking to the area border
police commander, Shacham is recorded instructing his forces to beat
anyone who breaks away from the Kfar Maimon group, seeking to enter Gush
Katif. "I am a specialist at handling these Haridim (religious Jews)", he
said. He called for the indiscriminate use of the water cannon,
giving his subordinate authority to do so without hesitation or approval,
as well as telling him to use batons and “hit them hard, blows to the
lower extremities to teach them a lesson”. The documented footage includes
a fair share of vulgarities and explicit instructions to inflict pain on
those persons apprehended trying to enter Gush Katif. Learning of the
footage and the Channel 10 program, Shacham explained his statements were
made in a closed conversation with a senior officer following a number of
days without sleep, expressing remorse for his harsh words.

The unedited
TV video quotes the full vulgar language in which this commander's orders
were conveyed - language which is too filthy to be quoted here - look at
and judge the full photo / quotes version from this video for
yourself - refer link below.

Police
Commissioner Moshe Karadi decided Sunday evening that Negev region
Commander Brigadier General Niso Shaham, who was caught on tape cursing
pullout foes, would face a disciplinary hearing over the remarks he had
made last week. Shaham's placement as sector commander during the pullout
from the Gaza Strip will be delayed, though he will not be dismissed from
his post. Karadi met with head of the police's human resources
department, Major General Gabi Gal on Sunday afternoon, in order to decide
on Shaham's future. The two examined a series of measures against him,
such as a reprimand and a temporary suspension, although it is not certain
that the decision will be made Sunday. Despite the public criticism,
it appears unlikely that Shaham will be permanently dismissed. The
national staff emphasized that the Brigadier General is an experienced
officer, who has won the appreciation of Commissioner Karadi and the top
echelons of the police. Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra said at
Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting that there was no need to rush to a
decision on the issue. Yossi Beilin, Chairman of the left-wing
Yahad-Meretz party, noted that Shaham is a highly valued officer and spoke
at a time of extreme exhaustion.

EASY! Having the
proper equipment helps make things easier. These are
Porta-Cells. You don't even have to drag the offending
resident to a paddy wagon or bus with barred windows - the paddy
wagons come to them. Then you can stack them like the cages of
chickens being taken to slaughter on the back of a large truck and
drive them off to the concentration camps built for that purpose
just South of Beer
Sheva.

These
cages are meant for entire families. Oh, and don't worry,
there are plenty more cages! What the

Israeli
government will do with

them
after this is all over is

another
question? But then again maybe they've invested in the tools
they'll need for the next 240,000 Jewish residents of Yesha?

Thousands of
police are currently receiving training. Many of these police are
recruits that have been specially employed for this job, many having been
re-employed specially, irrespective of their criminal records, having been
fired from the Force previously! There are reports that the
authorities are also preparing mountain caves to house those settlers who
refuse to move and who will be removed forcibly.

What has
happened to the human rights outcries of the world? These are
seemingly not applicable to Jews in their own country!

30 July 2005

Birth of
the State of the Faithful in Israel

With so much negative information going
around these days about the "Jew fights Jew" crisis in Israel,
anti-Semites and anti-Rabbinists must surely have a field day in their
criticisms, accusations and smear campaigns of what after all is claimed
by the Bible to be "God's People".

Pro-Jewish commentators regularly have to
clarify their negative news revelations and commentaries, explaining that
their intention is not to stoke the fires of anti-Semitism.

It would therefore be apt to review the
momentous changes that the fateful disengagement from Gaza is busy
bringing about in Israel. The following are some
highlights from a report by Kalman Neuman (idoctor of history
and a graduate of the Mandel Institute for leadership) n HaAretz
newspaper, Jerusalem, in reviewing the history making gathering of 100 000
(coming and going) protestors against the Disengagement in Kfar Maimon for
3 days, starting 18 July, 2005. (Refer

http://www.revelations.org.za/Gush_Katif.htm#Maimon
). As background to these conclusions, the reader should be aware
that modern Israel, since its establishment in 1948 by mainly secular
Zionist leaders, has been ruled to date by secular (and mostly leftist
tending) leaders who have often performed totally out of line with Torah -
the foundation of religious Judaism. It is the unique spirit of
unity in Judaism which has held the secular and the religious together
throughout great moments of in-house strife. The moment in history
may now have dawned, in which religious leadership should come to its
right.

Under the heading "At Kfar Maimon the State
of the Faithful was founded", the author writes: "The public that gathered last week at Kfar Maimon - almost
entirely from religious Zionism ... sees the disengagement plan as an
expression of a value vacuum, mental tiredness and a loss of the
dedication that characterized the generation of the state's founders. In
their eyes, the struggle for Gush Katif is just the tip of the iceberg of
the struggle for hegemony (control, power, authority) in the state.
Many sat for hours in the broiling sun and listened to Torah lessons given
by rabbis. There was no need to discuss the reasons for the opposition to
the disengagement, and there was no reason to explain to the public why
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not worthy of their trust. The rabbis
described the disengagement not only as a political mistake and not only
as a transgression of traditional Jewish law, but rather as a real
desecration of the Holy Name, something for which there is no atonement."

"To them the source of the collapse is
clear: There are those who stress the prime minister's personal
responsibility, but all of them see in the plan an expression of a crisis
in Jewish identity, with respect to the Jewish people and the Land of
Israel and the adoption of Western mass culture. As opposed to these, they
describe the masses who gathered at Kfar Maimon as an idealist public that
is sure of itself and prepared to take the reins from those who have grown
tired. There is no need to convince the convinced. But the explanation
touches the root: The struggle for Gush Katif is only the tip of the
iceberg of the struggle for the State of Israel. The steering wheel of
government must be passed into the hands of the religious public - it and
only it is worthy of holding it."

"The unwillingness to recognize a secular
leadership and the demand for a "believing" leadership ... is
gathering momentum. As one of the settlement rabbis said to me, "It
could be that we will lose this battle (for Gush Katif), but we will
certainly win the whole fight." The big fight is for hegemony in the
state, and religious Zionism is intending to take the place of secular
Zionism, which has become tired and has collapsed."

"Rabbi Kamintzky explains: At the root of
the "disengagement sickness" lies the desire to disengage ... from the
entire past of the Jewish people, from its history, from its values, from
its beliefs, from the belief in the G-d of Israel, from the destiny of the
people and so on. Going from door to door in thousands of homes ... has
taught us that the Jewish people is longing , thirsting and yearning for
the true values, for the words of the living G-d."

"Rabbi Yehuda
Leib Maimon, after whom Kfar Maimon is named, was the first minister of
religious affairs in Israel. When he made the Shehekhiyanu blessing
(thanking God for delivering us to this day) on the occasion of the
declaration of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion (1948), he
established a pattern of religious recognition of a political act by a
secular leader. Something of this model has been broken now. The damage to
the settlement in Yesha is causing damage to the sense of partnership in
the state. The scalpel that is cutting into the territories of the land
cannot but puncture the aorta of the collective consciousness. "

"At Kfar
Maimon the State of the Faithful was founded, which aspires to build
itself up on the ruins and the crises of the existing State of Israel but
it does not yet know how."

Major traffic delays
are reported in Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod and many other southern
district municipalities as thousands of anti-Disengagement protestors
continue making their way to the rally. Police report that there are
five-mile-long traffic jams in all directions surrounding the town of
Sderot. Thousands of people were also seen walking toward the western
Negev town on the shoulders of the roads.

The father of Ella
Abukasis, the teenage girl who was killed by a Kassam rocket that h!
it her home in Sderot, addressed the crowd, angrily pointing a finger
at the government.

"Why are there 30,000 soldiers and police
here today to make sure good Jews don't walk to Gush Katif?" Abukasis
boomed. "Where were they when my daughter was killed? Where are they
when murderers fire rockets at us daily?"

Following the Sderot
event, participants plan to continue on toward Ofakim where they will
spend the night. Many demonstrators told Arutz-7 that on their way
into town they received invitations from residents, some yelled from
balconies, to spend the night at their homes. An estimated 500 Sderot
families have opened their homes, in this way. Other Sderot residents
cooked large pots of food earlier in the day, to have food ready to
offer the protestors.

The Yesha Council has
announced that from Ofakim, protesters will march to Gush Katif on
Wednesday. (Ed. It is high summer, up to 40 degrees in this
semi desert area. Nothing seems to stop the marchers - not even
the very real threat of Katusha rockets fired on these areas
constantly by the Palestinians!)

News Flash just in! - Ynet reports
that two of three Qassam rockets fired by Hamas in Beit Hannoun
towards Sderot shortly before the start of the anti-disengagement
rally held in the Israeli border town slammed into a Palestinian home
in Beit Hannoun killing a 3 year old boy and wounding six other
Palestinians. The third rocket fell near Sderot, causing no
Israeli injuries.www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3121711,00.html

"From
Ofakim, we will continue to join our heroic brethren in Gush Katif,"
Lieberman later bellowed from the rally's podium. "We are not going
home!

August 5,
2005

REPORT BACK -

OFAKIM MARCH -
SAME STORY,

DIFFERENT
PLACE!

Having attended
this Protest Raleigh in Ofakim, I can find no better summary to conclude
my own disappointment and observations, than copying editor Shlomo
Wollins’ overview from his IsraelReporter.com Web Site. I have been
recommending his News Page all along, as one of the finest for factual
reporting (refer blue block below) right from the heartland of Gush Katif
where he has made his stand for the final face to face meeting with
Sharon's expulsion specialists. I will add some reports and
personal views after his very apt conclusion:

“Thousands
of anti-disengagement marchers (BiBREV Ed. - could be 40 to 80 000)
were forced to spend the night at Peduyim Junction, about two kilometers
west of Ofakim (BiBREV Ed. - This was a 2km long, roadside
to roadside crowd, spending the night on the main road). IDF
Southern District Commander Major-General Dan Harel announced he would not
permit them to get any closer to Gush Katif, stating “they will not move
another meter from here.”

"Simply stated:
you have the same standoff at a different place and time. Whether that
standoff is located a Sderot, Netivot, Kfar Maimon, or now at the Peduyim
Junction, it remains the same standoff. On one side, you have the popular
opposition movement represented by about 40,000 marchers with a stated
intention to head towards Gush Katif, that have stated that they will use
“no violence whatsoever” to achieve their goal. On the other side, you
have the Israeli “police state” with 30,000+ security officials and police
with the stated intention to prevent any march by anybody in that
direction, that have stated they will use “all means necessary” and have
pre-authorized teargas, batons, water cannons, and some really barbaric
special police forces.

"Not only will
“zero force” not achieve the opposition’s goal of entering Gush Katif, it
would appear that reasonable to significant force would be needed. The
opposition is suffering from a “too little, too late” effect-that is, not
enough people (100,000 minimum required to go forward) and after Kissufim
has been locked down with troops and infrastructure. It will take a great
deal more than what the Yesha council is mustering to enter Gush Katif,
and clearly no one in this arena expects that to happen.

"What we saw last
time (Kfar Maimon) and again last night, are announcements of “hundreds”
entering Gush Katif under the distraction of the rally/march. INN reports
that 200 persons made it into the Jewish town of Nisanit (in northern
Gaza). And let’s remember the notable comment yesterday from the Yesha
Council, that the goal of the march/rally is not necessarily to enter Gush
Katif, but to prevent the disengagement from going forward. At the end,
the council will back down and claim partial victory in the increase in
the opposition population in Gush Katif. But the disengagement will go
forward. Since the Yesha council cannot (and it could be argued should
not) change their stripes and order: “Charge into Gush Katif!” to the
opposition masses, the outcome of this march becomes predictable, at least
from the Yesha Council point-of-view. And although the march in its
current format (size/leadership) cannot get into Gush Katif, the victory
claimed will be hundreds of “new entrants” into Gush Katif. And there is
no doubt that every extra person here makes a difference, but we would
need thousands (if not tens of thousands) of new entrants to prevent the
military “invasion” of Gush Katif in 13 short days.

We as a people
have done too little, too late. We all knew this disengagement was very,
very wrong, and many have done a great deal in almost superhuman efforts.
But as of this writing, it remains too little & too late. Another
scenario that might unfold in the march is “breakoff” groups that attempt
to either charge the military barriers and/or attempt to sneak into Gush
Katif. The former will be impossible without a mass rush and leadership
that does not now exist, and the latter has been occurring at a rate of
100+per day over the last few weeks. It is the opinion of
israelreporter.com that the IDF is fully aware of the rapid influx of
2000+ opposition persons into Gush Katif in the last month alone, but does
not see this as a threat to the evacuation forces. It appears that the
army/police are viewing this influx as a simple statistic, and not
militarily-significant as a consideration.

"The Israeli
government is days away from executing its disaster known as
disengagement. It is time for the Jewish people to stand up in real
mass-something that has not been done to date. If there were 50,000
protestors at Ofakim last night, we are only talking about 1% of the
Jewish population of Israel that considers Gush Katif important enough
(and/or disengagement dangerous enough) to do what is needed. Only one out
of a hundred Jews in Israel! Bottom line: we need 250,000 to assemble with
100,000 plus organized to march forward through army positions. This will
do the trick; less than this will not. It is simple: if we cannot organize
a mere 5% of the population base in Israel to prevent disengagement;
perhaps disengagement is not as unpopular as we would like to claim. Or,
the government has succeeded in its intimidation of the opposition
movement. Or, we as a people have spent so many years in exile, we no
longer can stand up and redeem ourselves.

"To this writer,
this situation was always simple. You can take a simple test: look up from
the computer and see where you are. If you are not in Gush Katif or at the
Peduyim Junction (or at least somewhere protesting this imminent disaster)
then in most cases, you really don’t care as much about Gush Katif as you
would like to believe or to claim. And, this diamond of Jewish settlement
known as Gush Katif, awakens from a missile-filled, half-slumber this
morning in deep peril of complete & total annihilation. The Arabs will
say that their missiles so intimidated the Israeli army that it withdraw
completely from the region removing all traces of Jewish life on its way
out. And, what a severe outbreak of terrorism will logically flow from
this “arab conclusion”. The standoff continues, but Gush Katif’s time is
running out. And as goes Gush Katif so will go Israel.

This perhaps is
the one and only thing that Sharon and I agree upon anymore. [editor’s
note: in a speech in 2002, Sharon stated that what happens to Netzarim
(Jewish city in central Gaza) will also happen to Tel Aviv.] The only
difference is that I am acting on my belief and Sharon is not. If we do
not act now, the damage from this “disengagement plan” may not be able to
be repaired in our lifetimes."

BIBREV EDITOR REPORT - This vast crowd spent 3 hours, from
sunset, on a very large central square in Ofakim. One after the
other speaker made up time, keeping the vast crowd "waiting for the
OK from the Police to march" - something that I knew outright, would never
come 'in a million years', with Sharon in charge. While their
speeches blared out over giant speaker columns filling the square, with
local residents hanging out the windows and on balconies of the
surrounding apartment buildings, the crowd seemed to have unlimited
patience. I have personally never seen such a large crowd - it
filled a square probably the size of 5 to 6 football fields. Ruck
sacks packed, the crowd lazed on the dusty, powdery grounds and flanking
islands and side walks of the adjacent double lane street, for what
little grass was available. All ages were present, including baby
push carts and toddlers running around, amusing themselves without any
signs of boredom! Police presence was almost non-existent - as they
were all waiting for the crowd at a control post down the road, outside
Ofakim, as we would later find out.

After 3 hours of repeated calls for "We shall go to Gush Katif",
I could take it no longer and careered down the main street to the
restaurants to have a bite. It was an hour later, that the main
street bellowed with the sounds of triumphant marchers - and like a tidal
wave rolling down a waterway, that great mass came flowing down the entire
wide main street. At the junction with the Gush Katif main road, 1
Km down the street, there was a lights display of dozens of police
car, blue flashing lights. The adrenalin reached spill over
point! "Here was something coming!"

We joined the surging front end (some 200 meters back by now
already). It was just unbelievable! We overheard that someone
eventually took the microphone and gave the marching
instructions.

As the intersection with the main road was reached,
surprise upon surprise, the police and army simply stood around.
This was not Kfar Maimon! We remained on the traffic island
virtually gaping at was going on around us. For the next hour, that
main street kept pouring down a flood of unending masses of people, from
side walk to side walk, disappearing into the dark on the road to Gush
Katif. As the march seemed to come to a halt, the main street had
emptied its flood of jubilant, singing, blessing-the-troops
marchers. We knew that they had been stopped, which meant that this
stream of protestors was 2 Km long, as we found out later, that they had
been stopped 2 Km further!

I share the above writer's views: and

this is what is of
importance for non-Jewish Bible believers who love Zion and who have found
meaning in the Divine Promises in the Bible, concerning the 'Promised
Land', which is now thrown to its illicit claimers as 'cheap bait'!

Saving
Divine Intervention in the next few days before that awesomely sad day in
Jewish history on 15th August, 'Tisha b'Av' - the anniversary of 2 dates
in history on which, centuries apart, both Jewish Temples were destroyed,
this could spell the End of Gush Katif and, if it were at all
possible for Satan to achieve, of the land of modern resurrected Israel,
certainly as a religious, Jewish State. May God prevent this!

On our way home from Ofakim, we
traveled the side roads from the most northern Gush Katif block, on the
Mediterranean side, to Ashqelon. It was another shocking surprise -
and undoubtedly, very few Israelis have ever traveled that road.. We came
to a military control post probably 2 - 3 Km north of what the map
indicates as Gush Katif. Closed also like the entire Gush area as
military zone. We continued North along the coast line. Some 2
Km further, is a large electricity power station on the coast line.
I was stopped by a security patrol vehicle from photographing the huge
pylons carrying a network of power lines into central Israel, for me to
use for awakening Israelites and the world to how close this important
structure will be for the Palestinian rockets which have been pounding
Gush Katif at the rate of thousands over the last few years. Our
trip north, some 4-5 Km further, brought us to the most southern outskirts
of Ashqelon - to seaside suburbs of modern luxury apartments and
homes!

And orange ribbons? - to express
opposing views to this risky and for 9000 Jewish residents such a
dishonorable disenfranchisement 10 Km away - we managed to count 7 ribbons
on all of the cars that lined the streets!

If you sense disillusionment - please
know that my faith in the Divine and pre-destined future of this Land of
Israel as the Kingdom of the Creator God of Israel, disregards all
contrary signs and notions.

Editor, BIBLE
REVELATIONS

August 10, 2005

Overflowing crowd of 250 000 souls do serious Teshuvah
(Repentance) before Godat the Kotel in
Jerusalem

To-night, a religious
core of the Israeli a nation which is being ripped from their land by
their own anti-religious government, turned as a last resort, to
their God in serious repentance - at the most holiest Site in the
world, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - the closest point, physically, that
we can hope to get to the Real True God of Israel on earth, at the Kotel -
the foundation Wall of the ancient Temple, which today hosts the Islamic
abomination - the Golden domed Dome of the Rock. The above
photo was taken from next to this Wall, looking South, to the entrance to
the great paved assembly square at the Wall. The buildings in
background are on the Western flank of the square, which are mostly
private apartments in the Jewish quarter of the Old City. The alleys
that the article copied below refers to, are narrow corridors between
these apartments.

There is so much happening here, so much
heart ache and pain amongst the protesting believers, so much news coming
in that it is difficult to absorb all and to share
it. For that reason, copied here below, is a testimony of a
participant to the meeting last night. It is a very fine rendering of the
circumstances surrounding this amazing gathering - which was done on short
notice, as all are these days in Israel. The Prayer Meeting was
motivated by Chabad, who towards the end of last week declared their
decision to oppose the Expulsion. But the stage was shared with
Rabbinic speakers from all sectors - a wonderful moment of unification in
the so-much divided ranks of religious Judaism. A leading Rabbi
commented, that this gathering was the greatest spiritual Revival in
Israel and Judaism since the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. And
it was done at the same venue where the Temple once stood. And, it
was at this very time (coming Sunday, to be exact, Tisha B'Av - 9th of
month Av) that the Temple was destroyed

I like to
believe that it was not purposely in Sharon's plans to select this time
for his evil and God-challenging deportation plan of his. I like to
believe, that it was Divinely purposed to happen at this Time, for all
major events in Israel's history follow a pre-set pattern of dates.
It may therefore, just possibly be that God may act on this
Teshuvah by His faithful at this Time - that is, the Teshuva
by the true religious core of the Israeli nation which is probably
not even 5% of the entire nation (of which probably half gathered at the
Wall last night), joined by the prayers of many faithful in the world,
even non-Jewish believers, and that He will respond and come to their Help
in a Great Way at this Time - for the moment of Destruction is at
hand. The evil Planners are wreaking havock with these faithful in
Israel and He can not allow the Land (the Inheritance of the faithful of
all nations) to be taken away. And yet - it may even increase in
further escalating measure! They are openly now already promising
the rest of Judean and Samarian "occupied territories" to be ripped up and
given to the usurping Arabs! At this stage, they confess to 60 000
more settlers to be disenfranchised after Gush Katif - leaving 180 000
(for later?) Bush demands, and Sharon jumps to attention, that
Israel should move back to the 1947 borders - that is, destroying all of
the miracles that YHVH has granted Israel in the 1967 War!

Here is
a partaker's commentary on the amazing gathering in Jerusalem on
Wednesday 10 August 2005, during the days building up to
the commemoration of the awesome day of The Ninth of Av. - falling on
Sunday 14th August, the Day of the expiry of the legal domicile of Jews in
their homeland, Gush Katif,northern Gaza area,

"Today’s scheduled anti-disengagement
activity was a prayer service at the Kotel. I dashed home early from work
to don an orange shirt, grab a few of my kids and go. This was no ordinary
prayer service. In my life I have never seen anything like tonight.
Rallies and special prayer events filled with orange-clad people (orange
being the symbol of the resistance) have become a regular occurrence in
Israel as the dreaded “disengagement” day rapidly approaches; the day that
will pit Jew against Jew in the unfathomable event of expulsion and
eviction of 10,000 people from their homes in Gush Katif and parts of
Samaria. Tonight’s planned prayer rally at the Western Wall was expected
to be no different; but it was. Very different. Despite recommendations to
take public transportation, I took 14 year-old Lexi, 11 year-old Eitan and
2 year-old Yaakov in my big, old minivan and started heading toward the
Old City of Jerusalem at 6PM. It normally takes 20 minutes to get there
from our home in Neve Daniel in Gush Etzion, and the rally was called for
6PM. For 15 minutes we drove as we usually would. As we got within 2 miles
of the Old City the traffic practically came to a halt. Though we were
quite far from our destination, we saw many people with various
orange-colored garments and ribbons on them already parked and walking in
the general direction of the Old City. Something unusual indeed was going
on. Miraculously, I thought of a little-used side road that not many
others seemed to have thought of and we were able to park there; a 15
minute walk to the Kotel (Western Wall) on a normal day. We bounced poor
Yaakov in his stroller up and down many rocky sets of stairs on our way
down the valley, then up and into the Old City as many other people were
streaming both in and out. We wondered, in fact, how many people would be
inside if there were already people leaving. We needn’t have wondered. As
we entered through the Zion gate on the southwestern side of the Old City,
we began merging with many others who had entered through other points. We
elected to walk down the road used by vehicles that leads directly to the
Kotel plaza to avoid the hassle of the stroller with even further sets of
stairs. Within minutes we were completely surrounded by densely packed
people heading toward the Kotel, and becoming denser and denser with every
step. A woman saw me with Yaakov and beckoned toward a little side alley
that she recommended we go down to remove Yaakov from the “hazardous”
crowd -- (In Israel there is such a close and connected feeling, even
among strangers, that everyone thinks they are your mother and gives you
advice…) We politely listened but of course we didn’t need her advice;
after all, we were finally at the point that we could see the Kotel! It
was astonishing! I had never seen the huge Kotel plaza completely filled
with people. At capacity! What was more astounding was that every single
space from the plaza up the road, around several bends to where we were
standing, where the Kotel was merely in sight and nowhere near, – was
filled to capacity! As the massive human tide was making its way toward
the Kotel with little hope of actually getting there, I suddenly realized
that the Israeli woman with the advice knew what she was talking about! I
grabbed the kids and we quickly ducked into the back alley. The only way
through was UP a fire escape staircase. So we bounced the stroller up the
stairs, and found ourselves in a side street in the Jewish quarter—amongst
thousands of people! We were able to get through, so we carried on in the
general direction of the Kotel. We thought that, maybe, only that first
street had been crowded and other passages would be easier to get through…
but that was not to be the case. Every street in the entire Old City was
jam packed with people making their way to the Kotel. For a split second I
was disappointed as it seemed that I would probably not be making it down
there after all our efforts. Then I came to my senses and realized that
this was not a personal event. I can go to the Kotel any time I want to.
Tonight I didn’t need to. For we were like one with all of our brothers
and sisters who made their way from far and wide to pray together this one
remarkable evening. Every man, woman and child, Haredi, modern Orthodox,
secular; we were all there together. If anyone made it all the way to the
Wall, then we ALL made it to the Wall. In fact, as I later found out, the
250,000 people physically present were not the only ones participating.
Many thousands of people were jamming the internet trying to watch the
live feed at sites such as www.thewall.org. What was so incredibly unusual
about tonight’s event? It was truly uniting. The leading rabbis from all
sectors of religious Judaism were sponsoring and promoting the event. This
was a rare occasion indeed. When we came to the conclusion that we were
not going to make it down to the Kotel, we needed to come up with Plan B.
I suddenly remembered that tucked into a little alley was the rooftop
balcony of Isralight, a Jewish outreach organization. We dashed down the
alley, found the narrow metal staircase leading up to the roof, but the
gate was locked. Okay, maybe this wasn’t the perfect thing to do, but we
just had to get up there! Eitan scrambled over first, then Lexi, I handed
her Yaakov, and then I climbed over as well. We were startled to find that
we were hardly original. In fact I was rather amazed to discover a fairly
old woman among the trespassers and Lexi and I had a little chuckle
imagining how she climbed over the fence. A small crowd had gathered on
the Isralight roof, but it was nothing like what was down below. In fact,
I had no idea what really was down below until we were there on top. Lexi
was the first to hop up on the highest point there and look down. She
gasped at what she saw. There were people on every roof, in every alley,
on every street; it was unbelievable!! And the masses of people at the
Western Wall plaza! If you have never been to the Kotel, it is something
like a big, outdoor synagogue, except that every little group holds its
own, sometimes competing, prayer services. Not tonight. Tonight, all of
those thousands upon thousands of people prayed as one. I cried and sang
along as all those people sang the prayer “Avinu Malkeinu” (Our Father,
Our King) in unison, amplified by some massive speaker system. Anyone who
has ever been to a Jewish town knows that the only thing people need to
start a synagogue is another synagogue to break away from. The tiniest
differences among people and suddenly there is a whole new congregation.
But here there were people who were about as different as you can get,
black coats with long beards, hippie-types, the fashion conscious; knitted
kippahs, no kippahs, big black kippahs; yet here they all were praying,
together, in perfect unison, at the holiest site in the world. I was
overwhelmed and overjoyed at the unity. A unity that I hope we can
replicate in the coming, painful weeks." - by Laura

I have neither experienced
anything like this. All of a sudden, the great logic behind Jewish
synagogue services became very real. A Prayer service system which
non-Jews will easily discard as a "form religion", reading from a prayer
book. Here was the real "show on stage", after many
rehearsals. A quarter of a million worshippers, truly seeking the
face of their God, knowing those services off by heart - calling
out as ONE voice, echoing thru the valley surrounding the Temple
Mount, as they respond to the crying pleas (and believe me, some pleas
were just that, and many partakers crying openly) directed
heavenward by the podium speakers over a sound system which must have been
heard many miles away. Bearing in mind that the surroundings of the
Temple Mount, on the Eastern side of Jerusalem, is home to Palestinian
suburbs. I guess that many of them "shivered in their spiritual
boots!" - and many must also have fumed. Many partakers shared parts
of this service over cell phones with loved ones who were not
there.

O! What a night - never
to forget! It will be one of my dedicated memories taken with me to
the grave!

And what did Israel TV respond
with? A very factual announcing clip, grossly under quoting the
number of people present! CNN & BBC TV? A similar
'non-important' acknowledgement, implying that these religious freaks and
'dangerous evil-intending settlers' are now turning to prayer in
desperation! Well, that is the message I 'heard' in their lame
presentation, watching a CNN report after arriving home, having
experienced the real 'thing'. Where were the reporters who so
eagerly interview 'suppressed' Palestinian witnesses? Even an
8-yr old child, of whom their were many, would have given the world a
response to why they were there and what they experienced, that would
startle any sober thinking mind in the world. But, obviously, these
famous reporters are as blind and deceived as the evil rulers of the
world - which is why they all side together against God's minority Witness
of integrity and Truth.

Those souls in Israel with hearts and accommodating spirits, are
reeling in the aftermath of the debauchery of a Prime Minister gone
berserk like a ravenous animal on some of the finest moral sectors
of his nation. The sworn enemies of these fine, productive and
ethical communities will now receive a one sided gift from Prime Minister
Sharon, a major chunk of Holy Land. This land, which these noble and brave
settlers over the last 30 years have developed from barren uninhabited
desert land to one of the most productive agricultural communities in
Israel, is specifically defined in the Bible as part of the Land which has
been allocated to Jews by Divine Order. Over the last year alone,
the settlers of Gush Katif have endured some 6000 rocket attacks across
the border from the Palestinians in Gaza. These unilaterally awarded
enemies are now dancing in the streets, brandishing the M16's which they
have used and will now use with even more success on Israelis, to force
them off the Land which the Palestinians are now high-jacking.
Sharon, his cohorts and their followers and political supporters may not
be dancing, but they are as unconcerned as fattened mice in a cage with
inexhaustible food supplies - and they contentedly swoon about their
"greater than expected success" over this despised and to them irking
religious sector of their nation, who are now living in refugee status
across the country.

1800 families were evicted, many forcibly, within 5 days.
These are now finding themselves scattered all over the country, most in
temporary havens, some without any haven at all. Contrary to
the well promoted claims of the authorities, the arrangements for these
people are in chaos.

- Many have been evicted once more from the hotel rooms where they
were supposed to be housed for 10 days - to make way for previously booked
clients

- These settlers have now been informed that they must pay the
hotel bills themselves.

- Many only have the clothes on their bodies with which they were
carried or herded out of their (often luxurious) homes.

- Those personal belongings which may have been packed properly by
some residents before eviction, are standing somewhere inaccessible
to them, in shipping containers in the desert sun, in goods yards
for which they are charged thousands of dollars storage fees. They
are also billed $2000 for transport of the containers

- Those who have not yet packed, will be charged exorbitant packing
fees by the same army that evicted them. Meanwhile, their belongings
remain in unlocked houses in now deserted towns where all sorts of service
people are roaming around.

- settlers who have complied timeously were even charged for having
their electricity cut off.

- deported settlers, now refugees, must continue paying their
mortgages on the homes which the Sharon government have now
bulldozed.- all
compensation is taxable!

- Three main tent cities house the residents of 3
settlements. One of these is in center Tel Aviv opposite the Central
train station. The city authorities are opposing their stay and have
given them until Friday 26 August to leave.

No commentator or media channel has referred much to or calculated
the enormous financial loss to these, now refugees, for having to hang
around for days, perhaps months, or even years, while their accommodation
is being sorted out by what may be one of the most bureaucratic State
systems in the world. As in all countries, State employees have very
little concern for their captive audience who require their
services. After all this, they have to find new employment or
livelihoods - and Israel must be one of the most strenuous countries for
such provision.

The situation is simply beyond understanding for Bible believing
sympathizers across the world - this certainly much to the joy and
satisfaction of the secular, Bible despising masses of the world - and
unspeakably hurtful to the victims who are caught up in this labyrinth of
horrors.

BIBLE REVELATIONS will attempt to bring Scriptural understanding on
this sorrowful event in the coming days, as we learn to live with and bear
the pain ourselves.

Latest - 25 August 2005

New homes for Gaza Jews: Tents in Tel
AvivRefugees camp out to protest
'government incompetence'

TEL AVIV –
Explaining they have nowhere to go until the Israeli government organizes
their living situation, former residents of a large farming community in
Jewish Gaza moved into tents yesterday just off the main highway in Tel
Aviv.

Expelled residents of Nezer Hazani, a former community in
Gaza's Gush Katif slate of Jewish towns, pitched a tent camp in a public
park alongside a major Tel Aviv exit on Israel's main Ayalon Highway. Most
residents of Hazani arrived at the camp in an effort to protest what they
say is Israel's failure to organize suitable living accommodations for
them after they were forced from their homes in Gaza last week.

"We have no where else to go," Hazani spokeswoman and tent camp
resident Anita Tucker told WND. "The government is so disorganized. We
keep hearing things are being worked out – then nothing happens. We call
and they put us off. If they gave me the money, I could have everything
worked out for all the former residents very quickly, so I don't see why
these so-called professionals are doing things so poorly."

Hazani
residents, along with the entire Jewish population of the Gaza Strip, last
week were evacuated from their homes and placed on buses that brought many
to hotels in Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Eilat and near the Dead Sea. The Israeli
government is currently negotiating compensation and relocation deals with
settlement leaders with the aim of keeping former communities in tact and
transferring them to neighborhoods in the Negev.

Many had thought
their hotel stays were being paid for by the government, but they were
informed this week the bills will be deducted from any compensation they
are set to receive.

For many Hazani residents, hotel rooms were
not even available. They were transferred to yeshiva dormitories in
Jerusalem and the Negev. They decided instead to set up the Tel Aviv tent
city in hopes of pressuring the government to find them living quarters
quickly.

"School starts in one week, and we don't know where our
kids will go yet because the government is still working things out," said
Tucker.

Hazani residents, like the vast majority of Gush Katif,
did not apply for government compensation deals before the evacuation took
place. The average evacuated family was offered about $200,000 in
compensation – the exact amount depending on house size, the number of
children and length of residence in the area. Some also were offered two
years free rent if they move to certain communities set up in the Negev.

Many in Gush Katif owned property worth far more than the
compensation offered. A consortium of American organizations recently
announced they will put up $14 million to pay Katif farmers for their
greenhouses. But the hothouses of Katif and the produce they generate are
worth an estimated $1-2 billion.

"We didn't apply for compensation
because we couldn't give in," explained Tucker. "We knew Gaza was first to
be given up, then it will be Judea and Samaria, then Jerusalem. We didn't
want to allow this horrible government plan to go through."

Officials expect most refugees ultimately to move for up to two
years to 800 flats and 110 houses rented by the government in coastal
towns such as Ashkelon and on kibbutzim near Gaza.

A leader of the
Legal Forum for the Land of Israel charged yesterday that only 100 of the
1,700 families evacuated from Gaza have found permanent housing solutions
so far, and that only 700 families have found temporary options. The other
1,000 have no solutions at all, he said.

Following are the conclusions of two well informed sources:

"There is no incompetence nor misunderstanding here. Sharon
intended this to be a Pogrom from the very beginning and
to cause maximum trauma and dislocation. This is only the start.
Irrespective of who the next Prime Minister of Israel will be, he will be
under foreign control with instructions to finish the destruction and
prepare for the Final Solution to the Jewish problem in Palestine. Nobody
with even the most minimal experience in Government, the Military,
Business or even Academia makes mistakes like this. Nobody."

" The expulsion was prepared in fine
detail. Temporary housing was built for the soldiers and cops and equipped
with everything needed for the temporary use, down to the last detail.
Every move, every word was planned and rehearsed. Everything was in place
and briefed, including 20 public relations professionals in two countries
to spread the word that the expellees were all living in first class
hotels with checks in the amount of half a million dollars and would have
permanent situation by September first. The abandonment of the refugees
and their repeated expulsion and desperation were equally planned in
detail. This is not governmental incompetence that we are witnessing but
deliberate, malicious cultural genocide."

Editor BIBREV - Many of the evicted settlers have commented on the
professionally designed new black uniforms and rig-outs of the executing
riot squads which represented something out of the movies - probably with
the intent aim to cause maximum psychological fear and intimidation - just
as Hitler's Gestapo.

August 29, 2005

Katrina's
message to Bush & Madam Rice

(BIBREV
Editorial Mote - There are several commentators who claim that every time
Bush takes a major step in opposing the well being of Israel according to
the Divine Purpose, a major catastrophe hits the USA. Bush's decrees
have landed most of the 8500 Jews who were forcibly removed from Gush
Katif, on the streets in Israel without homes, jobs and
schools. Exactly 7 days later, Katrina threatens to make a million
refugees in New Orleans).

Please note
that this article was written by the Rabbi even before Katrina's cyclone
hit New Orleans on Monday. On Tuesday news reports seemed to
conclude that the storm damage was not so bad after all, as Katrina took a
last minute right hand turn, thereby avoiding a direct hit on the city -
and thereby nullifying all the doom prophecies. Then - on Wednesday,
as the water level in some places declined, the devastation became
known. Some commentators described it as 'Hiroshima', 'similar to
the Indian tsunami catastrophe'. Yet, the core of Katrina missed the
main City of New Orleans which was on Wednesday declared uninhabitable by
its authorities and probably a million people (from the greater area) are
homeless, "with nowhere to go". They have thus reached the situation
in which most of the 8500 Jews of Gush Katif, whom Bush, Rice and Sharon
had disenfranchised exactly one week ago, and who are now refugees in
their own country, many living in tents in city
parks!

The damage could have been
even far worse - Bush was given the opportunity to repent and withdraw his
demands for continued dismantling of the Holy Land of Israel - God's
domain for establishing, soon, His universal Kingdom. Bush should
carry the responsibility for this catastrophe to his people - just as
Sharon does. Will they listen? Hardly likely. So, expect
worse to follow - They have declared War on God by dismantling Israel -
how audacious of these "little tin men"?

By Rabbi
Lazer Brody - (Please note, that this Warning was
published days BEFORE Katrina struck)

Rebbe
Nachman of Breslev teaches that we must constantly search for the Divine
message in all the events of our lives, since Hashem (G-d) speaks to us by way of our
environment.

At the time of this
writing, hurricane Katrina has been declared a
national emergency in the USA; her winds now exceed 175 mph (nearly 300
km/hour). She's a mere one hundred miles from the US coast, and
approaching at a foreboding 13 miles per hour. Authorities in Louisiana
have ordered hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their
homes.

Fleeing
from Katrina, New Orleans, Sunday afternoon

Katrina is
hitting just as the bulldozers are completing the destruction of Gush
Katif. The Talmud teaches that Hashem administers the world according to
the "ATFAT" principle, in other words, "a turn for a turn" (for an
elaboration of the. My heart tells me that there's a link between the
forced expulsion of 8500 people from their blood, sweat, and tear-soaked
homes in Israeli Gaza and between the nearly 850,000 people who are forced
to flee from their homes in Louisiana. Sharon, at the prodding of the
American government, has destroyed hallowed centers of prayer, Torah
learning, and settlement in the Land of Israel. Hashem isn't wasting much
time in showing His wrath. In fact, Katrina has chosen Ms. Rice's home
state as a target; I humbly believe that the unfortunate people of
Louisiana can blame Mr. Bush and Ms. Rice for their misfortune. This is a
classic ATFAT situation: He who creates exiles in the Holy Land, will have
a hundred-fold exiles in his own land.

A
bizarre turn of events - for weeks, the media was savoring over the
confrontations between Jewish settlers and Jewish soldiers; now, similar
pictures are pouring over the wire from New Orleans. In the above photo,
courtesy of Reuters, a National Guardsman holds back people seeking refuge
in the Louisiana Superdome, Sunday afternoon.A coincidence? I don't
believe in coincidences.

Katrina,
written קטרינה in Hebrew, has a numerical equivalent of 374. Two relevant
passages in Torah share the exact numerical equivalent of 374 also: רעה
גמלוך, or "They have done you evil" (see Gen. 50:17), and ים ביבשה, or
"The sea upon land" (see Exodus 14:15). The former passage may be an
indication as to the spiritual cause of Katrina, while the latter passage
describes the physical manifestation.
(BIBREV
Ed. - CNN visuals beforehand described the surrounding areas of New
Orleans as vast marshlands and how the sea pushes in at times of great
storms. On Wednesday, showing aerial videos of how the sea invaded New
Orleans, the commentator remarked how that "the barrier between sea and
land had been removed!" - )

The Rabbi concluded:

Mr. Bush
and Ms. Rice, I implore you to repent, to ask Hashem's forgiveness for
destroying a flourishing part of Israel. Cancel all your demands for
further territorial concessions in Israel. If by your initiative more Jews
are rendered homeless, G-d forbid, I shudder to think of what could
happen. Please take Katrina very seriously, for she is a no-nonsense
messenger from The Almighty.

(End of
Quote)

BIBLE
REVELATIONS Commentary - There also is an interesting correlation of
numerical values, in the very name of the Gush Katif operation, i.e.
Hitnatkut (Disengagement).

"Hebrew letters, like Roman and Greek
letters, have numerical values. Gamatriah (Hebrew) is the term
used for the study and analysis of the numerical values of words,
sentences and portions of Tanach (OT) and their comparative
conclusions. Rabbi Avraham Feld points out
the following:- The numerical value of the Hebrew word
for 'disengagement' (Hitnatkut) is 1361. He then searched for a
Scripture sentence with the same numerical value. The one that came
up, was:Ps 50:15 -
"When you invoke
Me in your troubles, I will rescue you and you shall honour
Me"

Certainly not
as a result of this Tanach admonishment, but in general despair of the
protestors against the disengagement of Gush Katif as the finale was
closing in, 250 000 to 1 million people (impossible to count) flooded to
the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem one week before Sharon's storm troopers set
in to forcibly evacuate part of the Israeli nation from their homes and
farms. The entire audience 'wailed' before the God of Israel,
begging His Intervention, in an historic national repentance before
God. Needless to say, that the media scoffed at these, to them,
seeming vain attempts to stop the world's 'democratic' solution for Peace
ijn the Middle East. And, fortunately for them, there was no
immediate Divine Intervention afterwards to prevent the mass and forcible
deportation of Jews. Bewildering and heart wrenching (even for many
non-Jews across the world) scenes filled the TV screens for several days
when brute Israeli soldiers and police herded people out of their homes -
where the true believers had dug in, awaiting a Divine
miracle!

N

ow, in retrospect, let us analyze the Gamatriah message of
"disengagement" as centralized in Ps. 50:15
":"When you invoke Me in your troubles, I will rescue you and
you shall honour Me"

Ps.
50. in general context, asks for God to be silent no more -
something which is very problematic for victims of
disaster to accept in this time where so much is done in Faith in
Him, and while the brutal
executing enemy persists, God is
silent. It then emphasises the need for true
worship (as God addresses
'Israel' which today we know does not refer to Jews only, but to 10-Israel
also -
Refer http://www.revelations.org.za/TenTribes.htm
)

Then follows a fearful reprimand for
those who are out of line READ! - and it concludes with a promise of that
which we are waiting for:"To the upright, I will show how God
can save!" Is
the devastation of Katrina one such evidence?

Though there was no
direct Divine Intervention in Gush Katif and most
of the deportees are now refugees without homes, schools or jobs - a fact
which shocked many in Israel after such sincere mass prayer meetings - it
may be that the Cyclone in USA is just such an Intervention. Now, after the real catastrophic devastation in New Orleans has
become known, these same scoffing media reports and supports official
calls for prayer!

Some readers may take exception to such a
statement, accusing us of rejoicing in other people's sufferings - my
response: check the Exodus and the drowning of the Egyptians in the sea -
when the Israelites sang and danced on the opposite shore in Honour of God who
had intervened. Unfortunately, like
with the Gush settlers, it is the innocent people that suffer - now, it will probably be the poor
in Louisiana. The rulers seem to go scot free. After Katrina, may the media, who are
the dedicated puppets of the evil rulers, swallow their scoffing remarks after the 'Disengagement' from the homes and properties of the citizens of New
Orleans

, which these leaders had brought onto their own nation
.

Let us remember - the Judgment belongs to
God!

Note also other similarities between Gush Katif and
Gulf Coast, Katrina:

Gush Katif on
theMediterranean Coast

The Gulf Coastin
USA

Katif

Katrina

The bodies of the dead to be dug up,

against Jewish Law, and reburied

outside of Gush Katif

Bodies floating in the
streets, with a pre-declared risk (now materialized - Ed) that even
coffins in the historic grave yard could be washed
up

In line with Sharon and Bush's
decree for making Gush Katif 'Judenrein'- on Sunday 28 August
Gush Katif was declared "empty of (Jewish)
residents,"

Most of Gush Katif's some 10
000 evicted residents found themselves without homes or jobs,
without money, and their assets either in military stores in
containers somewhere in the desert or exposed to looting in
their abandoned homes, They found themselves virtually on
Israeli streets, irrespective of government claims to the
contrary

The next day Katrina struck
New Orleans, and 2 days later New Orleans was declared
'uninhabitable', leaving up to 500 000 people (in the greater area)
homeless. Looting was rife in the devastated areas, with
police running out of fuel for their vehicles and no jails for
locking up looters!

10,000 patriotic Jews were expelled from Gush Katif – out of
a total Jewish population in Israel of 6 million:

10 000 divide by 6 000 000 = 0,17%

500 000 in N.Orleans are left homeless,

total US pop. 300 000 000

500 000 divide 300 000 000 = 0,17%

Bush now has his sights on the so-called ‘West Bank’ of
Israel a.k.a. Samaria (Shomron) which he wants to make ‘Judenrein’
of an initial 60 000 Jews – and thereafter the rest, some 180 000
residents. So, multiply Katrina with 7 (i.e. Gush Katif 8500 x
7 = 59 500 ), thus, is a catastrophe 7x the impact of Katrina to
follow?

The area in New Orleans housing the failed pump stations, is
called ‘the West Bank’

Whereas - in Gush Katif the settlers were outnumbered some 10
- 1 by military and police forces, many dressed in specially
designed new riot gear outfits, like in the movies, to drag away
people from their homes - - - - -

In New Orleans, even 5 days after the
disaster struck, the great US Structure could not yet manage to get
its troops into the devastated areas to save people who
were without food and water and surrounded by infested waters and to
stop looting and killing

Arriving just with their clothes on their bodies, having been
forcibly dragged out of their homes and bussed away to unknown
destinations, distraught and exhausted settlers were told to move on
1 or 2 days later.

Many evacuees, arriving hundreds of miles away
after 12-hour long bus trips, without hardly food or water for days,
were told to move on to other destinations.

Within a week, Gush Katif was bulldozed back to the bare
desert sand that it was before Jews changed it to a coastal, highly
productive agricultural paradise.

Whether New Orleans will be rebuilt, is an
open question at this time - but already there are suggestions that
it should be 'bulldozed'. Guess the eventual outcome may
confirm whether this was really all co-incidence or
not.

The evicted
settlers of Gush Katif, in their strong faith and identification
under the 6-point Star of David, will continue searching for
permanent settling in their Promised Land

The first and main haven where survivors of
New Orleans found refuge, was Texas (Pres. Bush' s domain), the
"Lone Star State", who's 1st national flag (Zavala flag 1836)
depicted The 5-point Star of Texas rising in the West against the
sinking of the 6-point star.

The status of total despisement of the mostly religious
settlers by the Israeli authorities is aptly summarized in an open
letter to PM Sharon by Israeli Chassidic Rabbi Lazer Brody:
“…
you built an antireligious government that made the status of the
religious population here like that of the blacks in Alabama of the
1950's.”

After 5 days of almost total inaction of the mighty US
government to come to the rescue of survivors stranded in the
infested city of New Orleans, black leaders and outcries from across
the world construed that it was because these survivors were mostly
black and poor. It was only when CNN
repeatedly televised these increasing outcries, that Bush started
moving..

A small proportion of the settlers of Gush
Katif left voluntary - the rest refused to quit their properties and
were forcibly removed by army and police to the order of some 10
troops to each resident! - for the entire world to behold their
embarrassing ordeal on TV

Asmost of the voluntary evacuees were removed, the
troops started informing thousands of remaining citizens who refused
to leave, that they would be removed forcibly from their
properties.

In the weeks following the deportation, most
families who found themselves virtually 'on the street' , were
relocated to new temporary locations under cramped conditions.

Evacuees were no sooner settled in new
quarters in neighbouring Texas, when hurricane Rita stormed down on
Texas and they had to be evacuated with the residents in the
projected storm path.

Now, go to top of this Page -
Index to read the full
implication of the evil 'disengagement' of Gush Katif which may just
perhaps, have brought this Divine retribution on the USA because of Bush's
evil decrees against the welfare of the Land of
Israel.

Sept. 9, 2005 - The situation 3 weeks
after deportation

The Situation of the Evacuees from Gash Katif

Arlene Kushner

Israel Resource News Agency - September 7,
2005

Sources

Information for this report has
been acquired from authoritative sources: The Israel Legal Forum the group
of more than 50 lawyers working pro-bono and for token payment on behalf
of the evacuees; Lema'an Achai a non-governmental social service agency in
Ramat Beit Shemesh that has assumed major responsibility for providing
counseling for the evacuees; Jewish Family Services, Israel a
non-governmental social service agency that has been providing some
assistance to evacuees; and evacuees themselves.

Background

The realities with
which the evacuees are coping are best understood set in context:

1) The Israeli governmental agency responsible for attending to
the people expelled from Gush Katif has insisted on dealing with
individual families.

The Disengagement Authority, SELA, from the
beginning of this process has been willing to negotiate compensation only
with individual families, who then presumably would make their own
independent arrangements for which SELA would have no responsibility. In
some relatively few instances, SELA has offered to provide housing for
individual families.

The Gush Katif evacuees, on the other hand,
have insisted that only relocation as communities will meet their needs.
Community leaders indicated to SELA that they wished to have the Israel
Legal Forum negotiate on their behalf, as communities; the government
authorities refused.

There is precedent for what they have been
requesting: When the Jewish population was moved out of the Sinai in 1982,
they were relocated as communities.

As a result of this impasse,
situations have arisen in which the government is maintaining it has
provided places for people to live, but the people are saying that the
scattered accommodations being suggested are not acceptable to them, and
they consider that they have not been provided for.

2) By any
measure one might use, the government was ill-prepared for moving the more
than 8,000 residents of Gush Katif.

In part, this is because
preparation took place over a period of months, rather than the three
years of preparation done before the Sinai evacuation. Thus a great deal
of transient living is facing the evacuees.

Stop-gap
accommodations were all that awaited most of the families when they were
removed from their homes. While some small percent had arranged more
stable accommodations for example, having already accepted compensation or
agreed to move to caravans the plan for the majority of evacuees was
short-term placement in hotels. Mere days before the date of evacuation,
however, SELA authorities realized that the 1,000 hotel rooms they had
reserved were insufficient for the 1,700 families that were to be moved
out: 2,500 were necessary. Officials of SELA, aided by members of the
Legal Forum, scoured the country seeking additional hotel rooms. So
inadequate has been the planning that there are cases in which whole
families with several children were moved into one hotel room, with
mattresses on the floor.

In some instances, Gush Katif families
declined hotel rooms offered because the arrangements were severely
inadequate or would have caused the scattering of the community. In some
of these cases, the community set up tents, considered a preferable
option; in other instances non-governmental offers of alternative
accommodation, such as school dormitories, were accepted.

There
were no government-provided social workers on the scene at various hotels
to assist with the trauma of relocation and to give practical logistical
advice. Evacuees distraught, angry, confused, and depressed found
themselves having to also deal with such pragmatic issues as having no
place to do laundry. It has been the large scale provision of assistance
by volunteers professional social service and legal volunteers and a large
cadre of laypersons willing to help with a myriad of details and provide
comfort that has greatly ameliorated the situation for the evacuees.

Originally the stay in hotels was slated to be for ten days, but
was extended. It is certainly expected, however, this first stage of
interim accommodations will come to an end before long. For most of the
evacuees, this will be followed by a period of living in more solid but
still temporary housing, for a period of two or three years as permanent
solutions are worked out. When they left Gush Katif two weeks ago,
two-thirds of the evacuees had no idea where they would be going for this
stage.

The temporary housing will be provided largely via
apartments, and in some instances caravans. At Nitzan, 400 caravans
(euphemistically called caravillas) are planned and some 200 families were
able to go straight there and skip the stop-gap hotel accommodations.
Additional families, coming from various Gush Katif communities, have
since moved in. They have encountered severe difficulties, as they have
been provided only with a complex of caravans with no synagogue, clinics,
stores or schools local to them. The government is spending $100,000 to
construct each of these caravans, which will be destroyed in three years.

As to the final permanent stage of housing, when the people left
Gush Katif, a full 90% had no idea where this permanent stage would bring
them. The Israel Legal Forum had proposed viable solutions such as
settlements in the Negev or in Nitzanim to which whole communities might
be moved. These proposals were made in sufficient time for them to be
properly activated, but were rejected by the government. Some suggestions
made by the government were not viable. For example, farmers rejected the
possibility of relocation to the Galilee because climate and soil
conditions are so different from those of Gush Katif that they would have
no farming expertise; they require a southern setting in order to sustain
themselves.

According to head of the Israel Legal Forum, Dr.
Yitzhak Miron, all claims by the government that it was absolved of
responsibility to prepare accommodations for families that did not
negotiate before the evacuation are without basis in law. The government
made a decision to move these people; the government had a responsibility
to provide for them.

3) Reports that the evacuees will be
generously compensated are in error: Monetary compensation will be
provided according to a formula involving length of residence in the
community, whether the family owned or was renting, and other factors. The
original full package of compensation for all parties 2.5 billion shekels
was increased to 4.5 billion shekels when the Israel Legal Forum went to
court to expose the inadequacy of the projected sum. This larger amount is
still 50% less than is needed for families to restore themselves to
anything approximating their former positions. In brief: for families who
owned houses, roughly $700 per square meter, some $50,000 for land, and
$1,000 for each year each individual over age three lived in the
community; for renters, some $10,000; for certain land owners possibly
compensation via new land, although the plan is not working out
successfully.

Government threats illegal according to Dr. Miron to
reduce compensation of persons who refused to leave voluntarily before
August 17 are being challenged by the Forum in court now.

The
current situation

Many, if not most, of those evacuated from
Gush Katif are without income. Either their farms were dismantled or their
jobs were terminated. Securing employment has been problematic for many
because of uncertainty as to where they are going to be located. There
have been numerous reports of volunteers providing ready pocket cash for
people who found themselves without enough to manage.

Dramatic
efforts are under way to move some greenhouses and the plants they contain
to new locations within the Green Line. This is particularly true in
Atzmona, but also in other former settlements such as Kfar Darom and
Netzarim. (Note: Many of the greenhouses are being left in tact via an
arrangement to turn them over to the Palestinians.) Thousands of
volunteers have been working furiously to bring everything out but will
not be able to entirely succeed; much will be lost because of the deadline
for the final closing of Gush Katif this Friday, September 9, so that the
area can be entirely turned over to the Palestinians next week. Urgent
appeals to extend the deadline have not been honored.

Those who
had mortgages on their former property within Gush Katif are required to
continue to make payments. In some instances it may be possible to ask the
bank to freeze the mortgage until the compensation comes through. It
should be noted, however, that taking mortgage costs out of the
compensation package means having very little left for securing something
else.

The evacuees' belongings, of necessity left behind in their
homes, have been packed in containers (with a maximum of two containers
permitted) and shipped to storage sites. Considerable anxiety and
frustration has accompanied this entire process. There were incidents of
looting of belongings before they were packed and there have been
incidents of damage in the storage areas. It remains unclear as to whether
there is insurance covering the belongings. The compensation package does
include something for moving expenses (14,000 to 21,000 NIS roughly $3,100
to 4,600), but in a great number of cases the cost of moving and storing
belongings far exceeds this. Some families arranged for additional
containers and storage on their own, because what was being provided was
inadequate.

The beginning of the school year has generated
additional anxiety and emotional problems with children feeling
disoriented, and parents worried because they know there will be further
transitions that are not good for their children.

It remains
unclear by when people will be required to leave the hotels. A great many
people still do not know where they are going for their next stage of
resettlement. According to a lawyer with the Israel Legal Forum, the
government is not making an effort to insure that everyone will be
provided for in this next stage. There have been reports of arrangements
in the planning that fell through; some community groups are making their
own arrangements. The problem stated above regarding a strong
determination to remain together applies here in the face of apartments
offered in scattered locales in some instances.

Less then 50% of
the families have received some government money at this point. 50,000 NIS
in relief money (to be deducted from the eventual compensation package)
was to have come speedily to every family that applied. At this point, any
family that has applied for emergency relief but has not completed the
entire application for compensation has been denied the relief.

14 September,
2005 - The situation 4 weeks after deportation

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAUAmericans shocked Gaza evacuees still homelessMany living in tents, school dorms, waiting for
compensation

NITZAN, Israel – An American
fact-finding commission here to determine the status of Gaza's former
Jewish residents was shocked to learn most have not yet received
compensation packages from the Israeli government and have been homeless
the past few weeks, with many living in hotels, tent cities and school
dormitories.

Tent city for Katif refugees
(All photos: Dov Gilor for
WND)

In spite of media reports, many former residents say they
have not been provided with government supplied social workers and medical
care, and have been relying for food and in some cases clothing on
volunteer efforts from local populations.

"I was stunned when I saw how former Gaza residents are
living," Pesach Lerner, commission head, told WND. Lerner is executive
vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, a large American
synagogue organization. "The perceptions I had and American Jews in
general likely have about the status of the refugees was completely
shattered when I saw things for myself."

The U.S. delegation visited residents of all former
communities from Gaza's Gush Katif slate of Jewish towns. The majority
have stayed together and are living in the same areas, many without basic
necessities, while they wait for the Israeli government to organize their
compensation and relocation deals.

At least one former Katif town has said it will not wait
any longer for government aid, and has already started to rebuild its
community in the Negev.

The American team spent time with the former Katif town of
Eli Sinai, which used to be situated along the Gaza-Egypt border. Its 50
families are currently living in tents outside a popular rest stop at the
entrance to the Israeli Negev.

"We have been waiting for the Disengagement Authority to
get us the compensation and the relocation we were promised," said Anat
Hakman, a former Eli Sinai resident. "Things are so slow. I can't believe
it's been almost a month and we have no where to live."

Hakman showed the delegation her current home – two beds
and an improvised closet area under a dark blue tarp. Her tent, along with
those of the other former Eli residents, has a fan connected to a
generator that works about eight hours a day.

New residence for Eli Sinai
family

"

The generators are our biggest expense," said
Hakman. "It costs us several hundred dollars a day and is coming from our
pockets."

The Eli refugees take showers and wash their clothes in
local homes. The area municipality provided them with water tanks and
port-a-potties.

Hakman said once a new area is picked out for them by the
government, the families are planning to move as a unit.

"Community is the most important thing to all of us. We
have been very clear with the Israeli government that we will only move to
new homes if it's all of us together."

The families of Shirat Hayam, a former Katif town that
used to be located along the Mediterranean Sea, are now living in a
college dormitory in Israel's southwestern Gush Etzion region. Many who
previously inhabited large modern homes are currently packing their
families into one-room dorm units.

Yossi Chazut, a former Shirat Hayam, resident spoke with
the American commission of the difficulties since last month's Gaza
evacuation.

"The families here still have not heard back about our
compensation. It's so hard to be considered a charity case and have to
accept the help of others. Our lives are not good right now."

Chazut said the Eztion Yeshiva [college] is absorbing the
costs of their living until new communities are provided. He said many
families have little clothing and supplies because their belongings were
put in storage during the evacuation, and until compensation deals come
through, they cannot afford the fees associated with reclaiming their
possessions.

He explained many families are finding it challenging to
adjust to life in an ultra-Orthodox environment.

"We're used to walking around in shorts and short-sleeve
shirts. The change is a big one for us," said Chazut.

The delegation visited Katif's former affluent Atzmona
farming community, with its seventy families now situated in the Negev
kibbutz of Ir Emunah or "City of Faith." The families are all currently
living in tents under a large dome roof they built to provide them with
shelter from the usually strong desert sun.

A small area with electric generators features dozens of
refrigerators and tables. A separate area divides outdoor bathrooms for
men and women.

Unlike most other former Katif towns, Atzmona residents
have given up waiting for government compensation and are planning to
rebuild their community at their own expense.

Hundreds of caravans are being rented next week, while
resident leaders scope out land in the Negev in which to settle.

"We have a few places earmarked and will decide on one and
rebuild Gush Katif," said Yehuda Reich, an Atzmona leader. He said he
expects former Katif residents from other towns to eventually settle with
him, and is hoping private donations will fund the community's relocation.

In the meantime, with school starting this week, Atzmona
residents have constructed from scratch a temporary school building
alongside their tent city, and say they will staff the learning center
with volunteer instructors.

New homes for Atzmona
residents

"

They destroyed our homes and our schools, but
not our soul and spirits," said Reich. "We will get back piece by piece
everything we lost. And we will do it as a community. And apparently
without any government help."

The former Katif community of Nezer Hazani, with its 80
families, are currently living in a hotel in the Golan Heights owned by a
family sympathetic to the refugees' cause. They do not know where they
will eventually settle. The families have not received any compensation
from the Israeli government in spite of several specific promises to their
community, and have been moved from town to town the past few weeks.

Former Hazani resident Mayan Yadai related the town's
movements: "After the evacuation, at first we had no where to go, so we
stayed at a yeshiva dormitory in Jerusalem. The Israeli government set us
up in a hotel but after a few days the finances fell through and the hotel
needed us to leave. Nothing was worked out.

"Some of us moved to tents in Tel Aviv to protest. Then
the government said they had everything ready and we could live in a hotel
until we get compensation and are relocated to a new community.

"But after we arrived at the hotel, the government decided
we could only stay for one month, but the hotel wanted two months or
nothing, so we were kicked out and are now living at a large hotel owned
by religious people who just want to help out and probably wont get paid."

Every former Katif town the American delegation visited
described similar situations. Not a single Katif resident who was
evacuated last month received any government compensation in any form, the
evacuees said. All said they did not know where they will eventually live.
Most are relying on charity from the general Israeli public to get by each
day.

Many former residents were originally housed in hotels,
but moved out after they were informed their hotel stays were being
deducted from any compensation they are set to ultimately receive.

The vast majority – 1,450 of Katif's 1,800 families – did
not apply for government compensation ahead of Israel's evacuation
deadline last month, most saying they feared if the withdrawal were
allowed to be implemented in Gaza, it would lead to other evacuations in
Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.

The Israeli government, though, reoffered the compensation
packages after the Gaza evacuation and said all families would be fully
compensated.

Lerner said before he departed to Israel, he was made
aware of a briefing issued to American Jewish organizations in which the
Israeli government claimed they were immediately providing all former
refugees with a $50,000 advance as spending money ahead of any final
compensation deal, which they said would average about $200,000.

"No one saw a cent of that money," said Lerner. "There's a
lot of misinformation out there. People in America think the expelled Gush
Katif residents are taken care of. All these media reports say everything
is fine and people have been relocated. All inaccurate. The situation is
dire."

Perhaps the one exception is the Negev town of Nitzan,
where the 350 former Katif residents who applied early for compensation
and moved before the evacuation are currently living. Many media reports
have stated Nitzan residents have been fully relocated and are living in
comfortable homes.

The American delegation was surprised by the living
conditions in the new neighborhood. Those relocated to Nitzan are living
in small prefabricated "trailer villas." Several residents said
electricity and running water are sparse and that construction of a school
for their children has been delayed.

The Israeli government has not yet constructed a synagogue
in Nitzan. Residents wishing to pray together were offered a small
building that can house about 20 people.

"It's terrible in Nitzan for religious families,"
explained Lerner. "People used to going to synagogue every day now have
really no options. I was also shocked by the size of the new so-called
houses. These former residents moved from large homes in Gush Katif to
cramped quarters with maybe two bedrooms and tiny living quarters."

Nitzan residents are mostly farmers, many of whom now say
they are not sure what they will do.

"The land is much different here than what Gush Katif
farmers are used to," explained Anita Tucker, one of the pioneer farmers
of Katif. "Most of the techniques used in the greenhouses in Gaza were
specific to the land and environment. Now farmer will have to develop new
ways for these new lands and the different kind of soil."

A spokesman for Israel's Disengagement Authority told WND,
"We are working as quickly as we can to get compensation to residents. We
are aware of delays, and are trying to work together with community
leaders."

Senior community leaders from all Katif towns said they
have not heard from the Israeli government the past two weeks.

Lerner said even after compensation packages are received,
former Katif residents will still be in need. "Take the average family,
which might receive $200,000. First, the government is taking out any
mortgage still owed on their Gaza homes, then hotel stays, health
insurance ... by the time all is said and done, there's not going to be
much left. Not enough to nearly replace their loss and start over."

Families who lived in Gush Katif for less than three years
are not entitled to compensation at all, Lerner said.

Officials expect most people to ultimately move for up to
two years to 800 apartments and 110 houses rented by the government in
coastal towns such as Ashkelon and on kibbutzim near Gaza. After that,
former Katif residents will be on their own.

But for now, Lerner says his delegation has found there is
a "massive humanitarian crisis that people in America are not aware of.
Something must be done. How can American Jews go on vacations and go about
their business when there is this situation of people who used to be
charitable and used to live beautiful homes now with no food on their
table, no jobs, kids without schools going from place to place. Now that
it's been exposed, it's time for American Jews to act."

Now read the next
report below

September 28,
2005

Hurricane Rita causes all time high damage

to Oil Rigs

The encompassment of the damage caused by hurricane Rita, though not fully established yet, is
certainly downplayed by the media and commentators, giving the impression that Rita was almost
harmless. ENERGY BULLETIN published an
authoritative reportwhich is copied below

It remains a highly controversial question whether
Katrina and Rita were Divine retribution for Bush and the USA for pushing
Israel to disenfranchise 1800 families from their homes, farms and
businesses in Gush Katif.

Those who disagree
will point out that there have been many
hurricanes in the past, causing great damage in the USA. The publishers of BIBLE REVELATIONS remain in favour of it being Divine
retribution. There are simply too many similarities in the
aftermath of Gush Katif and Katrina. Refer here. And now we've had Rita, which seemingly passed by
without much damage - did it really? Not according to the
report below.

Without going into
lengthy reproves of why this may be truly Divine Retribution, let us simply highlight a conclusion from:
Science Daily: BOULDER -- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanesworldwide has nearly doubled over
the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has
dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of
Technology and the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "What we found was rather
astonishing," .... Since 1990, the number of Category 4 and 5
hurricanes has almost doubled, averaging 18 per year globally

And from the University Corporation for
Atmospheric ResearchThe years from
1995 to 2000 have been the most active six-year period on record. This
includes the total number of named major hurricanes (23). However,
only 3 of the 23 major hurricanes that developed in the Atlantic basin
during this period reached the U.S. coastline (Opal, 1995; Fran, 1996; and
Bret, 1999) (This, before Katrina).

Surely, the issue is about major hurricanes (4 or
5), if we speak of 'retribution'? White House reporter Bill Koenig has
tracked the storms hitting the USA over the last decade, and concludes
that all major storms happened directly or shortly after US interference with Israel's future and welfare. If
true, then surely Katrina has a similar important ranking?

Now, let's look at Rita in the aftermath, and note how
that its storm path swept right next to Katrina,with seeming main concentration on 'oil' production. Oil is
the major future issue in the world and is
what lies behind Bush's draconian expectations and
actions against Israel. This report emphasises the roll of oil
rigs and the effect of Rita's damage on them, and thus on future oil
production.

Rita causes record damage to oil rigs

by Carola Hoyos in London, Sheila McNulty

Hurricane Rita has caused more damage to oil
rigs than any other storm in history and will force companies to delay
drilling for oil in the US and as far away as the Middle East, initial
damage assessments show.

ODS-Petrodata, which provides market
intelligence to the offshore oil and natural gas industry, said it
expected a shortage of rigs in the US Gulf this year. “Based on what
we have right now, it appears that drilling contractors and rig owners
took a big hit from Rita,” said Tom Marsh of ODS-Petrodata. “The path
Katrina took was through the mature areas of the US Gulf where there are
mainly oil [production] platforms. Rita came to the west where there is a
lot of [exploratory] rig activity.”

Ken Sill of Credit Suisse First
Boston said: “Early reports indicate numerous rigs are missing, destroyed
or have suffered serious damage and several companies have yet to report.
Rita may set an all-time record.”

The US Coast Guard said nine
semi-submersible rigs had broken free from their
moorings and were adrift.

This damage could not have come at a
worse time for oil companies and consumers. US crude futures on Monday
fell 37 cents to $65.45 a barrel in midday trading in New York as
refineries that were evacuated before the onset of Rita returned to
operation.

Earlier in the day, Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil
minister, said the market had not taken up the 2m barrels a day of spare
capacity the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries offered
last week. Speaking in Johannesburg, he blamed high oil prices on a lack
of industry infrastructure, including rigs and refineries, rather than oil
reserves. Rigs, which are movable and are used for exploration and
development, were in short supply before hurricanes Katrina and Rita blew
through the US Gulf in late August and September.

High oil prices
and the desperate search for new oil supplies needed to meet rampant
demand from the US and China have made rigs difficult to find and
expensive to hire. Rigs cost $90m-$550m to construct, depending on how
sophisticated the structure and how deep the water in which it will drill.
A rig ordered today is unlikely to be ready before 2008 or 2009, analysts
said.

As a sign of just how precious rigs are becoming to the
market, Anadarko, the biggest US independent oil company, this week set a
record by committing to a rig six years in advance; commitments in the
past were made months ahead of time rather than years.

Initial
reports from companies are ominous. Global Santa Fe reported it could not
find two of its rigs. Rowan Companies reported four rigs damaged, with two
having moved, one losing its “legs” and the fourth presumed sunk. Noble
has four rigs adrift, with two run aground one into a ChevronTexaco
platform.

November 4, 2005

11 weeks after the Eviction,
no solutions yet

Eleven weeks after the disengagement, many
of the expelled families continue to be shuffled along from one
short-lived proposed solution to another. Reports from Katif, Slav,
Bdolach and Jerusalem.

Former Gush Katif residents and
several Likud MKs met this week at the Jerusalem Gold Hotel, where many of
the families have been deposited. One woman from N'vei Dekalim cried out,

"What do
you want? That we should just evaporate? Every plan that arises falls a
second later because there is no money or whatever. You had money to put
up new gravestones, so that there wouldn't be a scandal - but money for a
roof over our heads you don't have. What harm did we do to you? Everyone
says that the disengagement is behind us - but behind who? We're jailed
here in the hotel. Our lives are stuck in a container and we don't see an
end."

B'Sheva correspondent Ariel Kahane visited the Gold Hotel
this week, and reported, "Two and a half months after the erasure of
the communities, and the emotional stability of the residents is
deteriorating. Thousands of them are still closed up in cages of gold,
conducting lives on the fringe of sanity. Children are sometimes locked
out of their parents' automatic-lock rooms, while others receive a cold
stare of rebuke from hotel workers for having taken an apple from the
kitchen between meals. Some teenagers steal out of their rooms in the
middle of the night to who-knows-where, while their parents in the other
room have no control; their own situation is not much
better."

"This impossible situation," Kahane writes, "weakens their
stature, and accelerates fissures in their family structure. Many of the
adults are not working, and there are already couples that are beginning
to crack because of the forced idleness."

The problems do not exist
only in the hotels. Many of the several hundred families in the new
caravila [small and temporary pre-fab housing] village of Nitzan, north of
Ashkelon, have no jobs and an uncertain housing future. The former Gush
Katif community of Bdolach is a prime example:

Some 35 Bdolach
families (out of close to 40 that lived there on the eve of the expulsion)
are currently in Nitzan - but of these, 30 were farmers, and only one of
them has begun to work the fields!

"That particular man was both
industrious and fortunate," said Chaim B., who lived in Bdolach for the
last six months of its existence, "as his parents had a plot of land on a
moshav that they were not working, so he took it over. But everyone else
is reduced to waiting for solutions from the government - and this
involves finding land, problems of its distance from their homes, what
type of agriculture, beginning anew, and the like. For people in their
late 40's and 50's, it's not easy to start again - and especially when so
much is settled."

Chaim said that though there was much to do until
now - "all sorts of arrangements, preparing for the holidays, etc." - now
begins a potentially dangerous period of near-total idleness and boredom.
"Some of the men used to study for an hour or two each day in the nearby
Torat HaChaim yeshiva in N'vei Dekalim [which has re-located to Yad
Binyamin, a half-hour drive away - ed.], but that arrangement has not yet
been reinstated... They need jobs!"

For others, the problems of
boredom have not yet begun - because they are still busy figuring out
where to live for the coming months. Some 30 families of the former Moshav
Katif have moved to the King Saul Hotel in Ashkelon, after having lived
for two months in the dormitories of the Kfar Pines Girls High School. Ten
other Katif families moved to the Atzmonah "Faith City" (Ir HaEmunah)
encampment near Netivot, hoping to join up with their former townsmen as
soon as possible.

Though they have chosen a site for the new
permanent community they wish to build - in the Lachish area - they have
been on a roller-coaster ride regarding where to live for the coming two
years. The possibility of Eibim near Sderot was nixed at the last moment
by the government; Nehushah was on the table for a while but became
irrelevant; Even Shmuel was then proposed - and now Moshav Amatziah
appears to be the most likely.

Aryeh, of Moshav Katif, told
Arutz-7 today, "Some of our people are right now on a tour of Amatziah,
and this could be the best option, as it is very close to our permanent
site. Even the government appears to be coming towards us, hoping that we
will be their first successful community; until now the government has not
succeeded in finding a communal solution for even one town! The high-rise
apartment building for Kfar Darom is still stuck, etc., and they're hoping
that they can succeed with us. They've even offered to build a new road
between Shomeriyah, where Atzmonah is supposed to go, and Amatziah, so
that we'll be able to send our children to school there. We have also
asked for special consideration - larger caravans - for our large
families. We hope that within a week or two, we'll have answers as to
whether, once and for all, something will finally work out."

Aryeh
explained that Moshav Katif is currently divided up into four different
locations - two Ashkelon hotels, Yad Binyamin, and Ir HaEmunah - and that
they greatly fear that they will not end up together in one community.
"One of the main reasons we are so anxious to remain unified," he
explained, "in addition to simply wanting to retain our beautiful
community, is to help the 6-7 families that for various reasons are not
eligible for government help. We don't want them to fall by the
wayside."

One community that did not survive the expulsion and
simply shattered into small pieces is Slav. Formerly located in the
southwestern tip of the Gaza Strip, Slav was a small and young town of
only 12 families - each of which is now on its own. One family with two
children had been living for the past several weeks in one room in the
Otzem pre-military preparatory yeshiva, where the husband studied, but the
conditions finally became unbearable; they moved this week, on their own,
to a private apartment near her parents. Other families live in Ir
HaEmunah, Yad Binyamin, or on their own - and the community of Slav no
longer exists.

Every citizen ofIsrael has the right to be buried free of charge in his/her home town. The family of Netezer Hanazi who died of a
heart attack, was asked to pay to 30,000 Shekels (a year's salary for a junior clerk) to
bury him inRishon L'tzion, since it's not his "home town". He had no
current home town,since his home is rubble in
Gaza. Theoffice of
Minister of Science and Technology did offer to return
the money (another of the many promises by the government, few of which
have been honoured) to this family and any further
deaths.

The Katif people, had a rude awakening this week when theirrepresentatives were told that the Disengagement
Authority was willing topay the hotel only 10% of
the cost of the rooms. The hotel had been willingto give a 20% discount, but the Authority reportedly wanted a 90%
discount.It also insisted that the hotel
provide only one hot meal a day, and thatthe
evacuees would have to manage in their rooms for the other two meals.Having visited the Ganei Tal community in Hafetz Haim,
we can report thatthe rooms are very small, about
60% the size of a regular hotel room, andthere
are no cooking facilities. Nevertheless, the Moshav Katif people werewilling to live in those conditions, but the deal fell
through, accordingto them, due to the demands of the Disengagement
Authority.

Yesterday (Sunday) representatives from Gadid went to see the
apartmenthotel rooms that the Disengagement
Authority had offered them in Ashkelonfor the
next four months. "There are very tiny rooms, one small burner perfamily, very uncomfortable. It appears they didn't even
check the placebefore they sent us to see it,"
says Shoshi. "The main thing is they say,'We
offered the settlers and they refused."

Aaron Farjun, a spokesperson for Bdoloch
currently living at Nitzan,laughed when asked if
the caravan were fireproof. "Ask if they're
waterproof!They're substandard. There are all
kinds of problems with them. They'remade of a
little bit of cement wiped over a piece of netting."

The Quartet's envoy and former World Bank
president James Wolfensohn is reputed to be quite a deal maker. One of the
deals he made as the Quartet's envoy to the region was the purchase by
wealthy American Jews of greenhouses owned by the Jews who were expelled
from Gaza this past summer and their transfer as a gift to the
Palestinians. Unfortunately, while the greenhouses were indeed abandoned
by the Jews as the IDF threw them off their land, and they were
transferred to the Palestinians, the Jews never received any money.
According to the farmers, the World Bank claims that much of the equipment
was looted from the greenhouses before the IDF withdrew and as a result
they weren't paid.

This story is one of many that were never
reported in the aftermath of the expulsions. Those expulsions, and the
withdrawal of IDF forces that followed have enabled Gaza to be transformed
into a new base of operations for global jihad. But aside from the
foreseen strategic consequences of the withdrawal of IDF forces from Gaza,
the expulsions have caused a humanitarian disaster for Israeli society.
Hundreds of families have been living in hotel rooms in Jerusalem for the
past three months. The largest group of refugees - some 350 families with
another 150 on their way - lives in the temporary city of
Nitzan.

When one enters Nitzan, at first glance it looks like a
success story. The roads are largely paved. Each family lives in a
red-roofed mobile home with grassy lawns all around. But dig just slightly
beneath the surface and you see you are in a refugee camp. The fiberglass
walls of the homes can be torn apart by a stray soccer ball. Children play
in dirt plots next to moving bulldozers. Sewage runs openly between the
homes. And those homes - 60 square meters for families of five and under,
and 90 square meters for families with more than three children - are
cramped and tiny. Most of the families in Nitzan had lived in homes that
averaged 200 square meters in Gaza.

When they arrived at Nitzan
many of the refugees realized that their furniture was unsuitable and so
they were forced to buy new furnishings. Although each family's belongings
were packed in containers, you will see no containers in Nitzan. The
Defense Ministry, which runs the camp, only allows people to have their
containers for 10 days. Anyone who does not remove their container after
10 days is fined. And anyway, the summer heat combined with less than
professional packing by Defense Ministry contractors left the contents of
some 20 percent of the containers ruined.

THE COMMUNITIES in Gaza
were self-sustaining. Most of the residents worked where they lived.
Eighty percent of the residents of Nitzan, who farmed, taught in schools,
owned shops and worked in the local councils, are unemployed today. The
massive unemployment, together with the trauma of having been forced out
of their communities, has taken its toll on the residents. Divorce rates
are skyrocketing. Parents, who spend much of their days watching
television and climbing the walls, have lost control of their
children.

The child refugees of Gaza are perhaps the worst hit by
the expulsions. Violence among the youths is high and rising. Drug abuse,
which was negligible in their communities in Gaza, is on the rise. Two
empty mobile homes were locked after they were found to contain drug
paraphernalia. So the party moved elsewhere. Nitzan is prime territory for
drug dealers looking for easy prey.

Children and youths have an
almost psychotic fear of policemen and soldiers. "When they see soldiers
or policemen these kids start shaking uncontrollably and become
hysterical," explains Eliya Tzur, the head of the One Heart volunteer
organization that has been helping the residents get
reestablished.

"The Education Corps of the IDF wanted to send
officers to come to the schools to talk with them. I warned them not to,"
Tzur, a 24-year-old college student from Jerusalem explains. "They said
they weren't afraid of hostility. I explained that it wasn't hostility
that I was worried about, but violence. These kids look at soldiers and
see tyrants. I don't know what or how long it will take to change
this."

THE IRRATIONALITY of the youths' reaction to the army and
police is matched by the financial irrationality of many of their parents.
They received NIS 50,000 from their overall reparations immediately after
they were thrown out of their homes. Rather than save it, many bought cars
they didn't need. The government deducts monthly rent for the mobile homes
from the rest of the restitution package, which averages NIS 600,000 per
family. The residents, without jobs, are eating away the possibility of
ever having the money to build new homes for themselves.

The
government has met all these problems with indifference. The Labor
Ministry has yet to set up an employment office in Nitzan. There is only
one social worker assigned to the Potemkin town. Much of the property of
the regional council in Gaza was disbursed to other communities. Four
thousand books from Gush Katif's library are stacked up in one of the
mobile homes, locked away. There is still no mikve. There is no grocery
store. Buses come through twice a day and a taxi ride to the grocery store
costs over NIS 100. Absurdly, when the residents moved in there was an IDF
watchtower set up in the middle of the development for no reason. There
are guard towers at its four corners, but they are unmanned. Theft is
rampant.

One Heart organized workshops on everything from job
searches to resume writing to teaching parents how to assert their
authority over their children. Its volunteers scour the surrounding cities
of Ashkelon and Ashdod to try to encourage businesses to employ the
residents. The volunteers, who sleep on bare mattresses in an afterschool
homework center they organized for elementary school children, also
organized a community center and clubhouses for teenagers. When they tried
to bring in a mobile home for a pizzeria, the Defense Ministry refused to
allow it. Only Ministry contractors can bring in mobile homes - even
though each mobile home, for no apparent reason, costs the taxpayers NIS
400,000 and the mobile home One Heart planned to bring in cost only NIS
120,000.

As the residents sink into impoverishment, someone is
apparently getting rich at Nitzan. It would be interesting to know how the
contracts were awarded.

INCOMPETENCE alone doesn't explain the
Sharon-Peres government's treatment of the refugee population that it
senselessly created. Today the refugees still want, most of all, to build
new communities that will allow them to stay together with the people they
have lived with all their lives. But while Sharon and Peres and Ehud
Olmert grandly discuss plans to develop the Negev and Galilee, these
people, who want to develop both, are shunted aside and left to
disintegrate.

In its systematic demonization and criminalization of
the Israelis of Gaza that preceded their expulsions, the government seemed
to be begging for these people - who heroically withstood some 6,000
mortar and rocket attacks, thousands of shootings and hundreds
infiltration attempts on their communities over the past five years - to
do something that would prove their deprecators right. When these patriots
left peacefully, deciding not to disengage from their country, Sharon and
his spinmeisters were left with their tongues hanging out. The brutal
indifference with which the refugees are treated today seems tinged with
more than a slight hint of vindictiveness.

"Perhaps the most
terrible thing about Nitzan," Tzur says, "is that we at One Heart have so
much work to do here. We're just a bunch of students. Why are we
necessary?"

But there's the rub. For the past 12 years the
governments of Israel have been playing poker with our lives and
well-being by granting land, guns and legitimacy to terrorists. The only
thing that has kept this country going is the fact that the Israeli people
have refused to collapse.

Once again, the vacuum created by
government negligence, incompetence and vindictiveness is being filled by
private citizens. One day, perhaps we will have a government that is
worthy of us. In the meantime, we have no choice but to work around those
who are elected and paid to serve us.

An official dossier of Yousef's schedule released today by
the Interior Ministry states, "The Minister Nasser Yousef toured the newly
liberated areas of Gaza, parts of which are used by the Palestinian groups
as training camps."

Earlier this month officials placed barbed wire around
Neve Dekalim, as well as signs posted in Arabic which describe the
neighborhood as a "closed military zone."

Senior Hamas sources told WND the group transformed
Dekalim into a "military training camp for martyrs," boasting that several
Qassam rockets have been fired from the former Jewish capital into nearby
Israeli Negev towns.

Hamas has taken credit for Israel's Gaza withdrawal and
has become a formidable force in the area. It swept local municipal
elections, and analysts expect the terror group to do well in upcoming
Palestinian parliamentary elections.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas chief in Gaza, told
WND in an exclusive interview last month "that our martyr
operations caused Israel to withdraw from Gaza is the truth and the
reality. ... [Martyr operations] are the option that the great majority of
our people, except a minority of opportunistic people, is deeply convinced
is the best choice because any negotiation with the occupiers will be
helpless and will not bring back to the Palestinians any of their rights
and it will not free their lands."

Al-Zahar warned Hamas would launch terror attacks to drive
Israel from the West Bank and ultimately from the entire Jewish state.

Since the Gaza withdrawal, more than 100 rockets have been
fired from Gaza into Israeli Negev towns. Israel says Palestinian groups
are transferring rocket technology and heavy weaponry to Judea and
Samaria.

Neve Dekalim was the largest town in Gaza's Gush Katif
slate of Jewish communities. Prior to Israel's withdrawal, the
neighborhood regularly was bustling with Jewish residents dining, shopping
and going to work. It contained Katif's industrial zone, government
buildings and some of the largest synagogues and stores in the area.
Housing was tight, with a total of 467 units in the neighborhood filled by
Jewish families who moved in from throughout Israel and across the world.

WND's story last week of a Hamas terror camp in their
former city saddened Jewish residents who had been expelled from the area.

Dror Venunu, former director of the Gush Katif Development
Fund and a Dekalim resident, told WND, "This is the ultimate insult. I
didn't have one illusion the Palestinians would use our town to build
something good. We warned about this to the Israeli population, that
giving Gush Katif will reward all the terror organizations. Still, to hear
where my home once stood is now a Hamas terror camp is very difficult and
sickening. This is like making a holy place into total filth."

Now, go to
top of this Page -
Indexto read the full implication of the evil
'disengagement' of Gush Katif which may just perhaps, have brought this
Divine retribution on the USA because of Bush's evil decrees against the
welfare of the Land of
Israel.

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January 22, 2006

5 months after - "A
National Disgrace!"

By Hillel
Fendel

Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Aumann at the
Herzliya Conference: "The treatment of the expellees is a national
disgrace, and everyone is silent... Israel's mad rush for peace has the
opposite effect."

Prof. Yisrael Aumann of
Hebrew University won this past year's Nobel Prize in Economics, for
"enhancing our understanding of conflict and cooperation through
game-theory analysis." He spoke Saturday night at the opening session of
the prestigious Sixth Annual Herzliya Conference.

Many of the
thousands of people expelled from Gush Katif and northern Shomron are
still in hotels, he noted, "even now, a half-year after the expulsion,
without the most basic conditions. Most of them are not yet in permanent
housing, or even in reasonable temporary housing. There is no work, the
children are in despair, and there have been some suicide attempts. Many
families, and maybe even most, have not seen a red cent in compensation
money, and those who have received are spending it on daily
food."

A report released earlier this month by the Gush
Katif-L'maan Acheinu Task Force stated that more than half the families
had received nothing at all of the promised compensation. The remaining
families received an average of 50,000 shekels (just over $10,000), and
only some 5% received the entire compensation payment. Those living in
pre-fab housing, known as caravilot, are paying monthly rent of $450 -
totally using up their advance payment within two years

"We're not talking about enemies
or lawbreakers," Prof. Aumann said, "but rather productive people who
built a glorious settlement enterprise, and whose lives have now been
destroyed - and yet everyone just ignores it. The entire media and
everyone else; no one hears a word about it, no one relates to it,
everyone ignores it. I, for one, will not be silent, and I am not
silent."

A religious Jew who grew up in New York City and currently
resides in Jerusalem, Prof. Aumann won the prestigious prize together with
Prof. Thomas C. Schelling of the University of Maryland.

"I don’t
know how the treatment [of the expellees] affects our national
resilience," Prof. Aumann said, "and I'm not talking about the expulsion
itself - but just about the treatment of those who were expelled. It's not
clear whether this is being done purposely to show a message that Zionism
is not worth it and [people] might as well stop engaging in it as quickly
as possible - or just out of criminal negligence. And I don't know which
is worse."

Prof. Aumann said that Israel's mad pursuit of peace is
precisely that which is pushing it further away: "The Arabs always
said they have time, and that they can wait 10, 20 or 50 years until we
disappear. But our problem is that we don't have time; we're rushing. We
want 'peace now,' and so we go and destroy beautiful blossoming productive
communities. We destroy the lives of tens of thousands of people on the
altar of 'we have to do something.' The very act of running crazedly after
the longed-for peace is precisely that which distances it from
us."

Click here for Report on further Evictions from Hebron under Israel's
unilateral withdrawal plan

Aug. 3, 2006 - Today - exactly 1 year on the Jewish Calendar
after Israel's withdrawal from Gush Katif - is the gloom
filled historic day of Tisha B'Av - the 9th of Av, when both the Temples
in Jerusalem were destroyed and many other disasters overtook Israel in
history.

Lebanon - Hezbullah - Israel
War

ISRAEL IN MORTAL
DANGER!

- result of Israel's Disengagement from the
'Promised Land'

Several commentators agree that the sudden break out of War with
the terrorist organization, Hezbullah in Lebanon, is as a direct result of
Israel's Disengagement policy in Gush Katif and Israel's false trust in
the 'peace' on the Lebanon border after their hasty military withdrawal in
2000. Israel failed to fully uproot Hezbollah at the time and
allowed Hizbullah building their rocket arsenal for 6 years without
any interference from Israel. The 'peaceful' situation on the
Lebanon border, was upheld by the leftist rulers of Israel as 'proof' that
Peace can be achieved with the terrorists without Israel's
interference!

The sudden rain of hundreds of Hezbullah rockets deep into Northern
Israel in July 2006, came as a rude awakening to most deluded leftists in
Israel.

The danger now looms that this war can spill over into Syria, and
then draw in Iran who threatens to use their newly developing nuclear
arsenal to wipe Israel off the map.

History is repeating itself. In the times of Israel's
kings and judges, its war successes fluctuated between great
success and doom, depending on the nation's spiritual standing with
God. The reason why today, Israel's highly acclaimed army in
this war can not seem to make a substantial dent in Hezbullah's
capabilities to rain rockets on Israel's northern towns, may well stem
from the traumatic and disgusting forcible removal of their prime
(many religious) settlers off their Promised Land. In 1967, in just
SIX days, Israel wiped out the attacking Arab armies on every and each of
its borders around the country! And its brave army conquered
stretches of Land and the Holy Mount in Jerusalem (after 2000 years!)
which seemed to have been 'dumped into their laps' by the God of Israel
Who is true to His Promises!

In this Lebanon / Hizbullah War 2006, after 3 weeks, the army has
not even conquered 40% of Hezbullah controlled towns within 7 Km across
the border! Something is wrong! And still, Olmert, the ruling
PM of Israel, is promising to continue with his intent to pull another
100,000 Jews out of their homes in Samaria and the West Bank - 'prime
Promised Land Territory' according to the
Bible!

On the morning of the 22nd
day of the War (the day before Tisha B'Av - the anniversary of Israel's
astounding eviction of 1800 Jewish families from their homes and farms in
Gush Katif - Israel's PM Olmert announced to the world that they have
conquered Hezbullah. Hezbullah responded with 220 rockets on Israel
- the most ever on one day in this war. And more and more Israelis were
now dying. It is as if Olmert is challenging the God of Israel,
confirming daily his intent to withdraw from the rest of the Bible
Land!

The God of Israel "neither slumbers nor sleeps". But let those who
oppose Israel and the Purpose of God take note: He shall see
Israel through! Jerusalem shall never be trodden down again by any
other nation. It will be awarded to Israel and
the Jews!

Ezek 20:30 "Therefore say to the house of Israel:
'This is what YHVH says: ...

31 "You say, 'We want to be like the nations, like
the peoples of the world,' ... But what you have in mind will never
happen. 33 As surely as I live, declares YHVH, I will rule
over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured
wrath. 34 I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the
countries where you have been scattered- ... 35 I will bring you into the
desert of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment
upon you. 36 As I judged your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt,
so I will judge you, declares YHVH 37 I will take note of you as you
pass under My rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. 38
I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against Me.
39 Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward
you will surely listen to Me and no longer profane My Holy Name with your
gifts and idols. 40 For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of
Israel, declares YHVH, there in the land the entire house of Israel
will serve Me, and there I will accept them. ... 41 I will accept you as
fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from
the countries where you have been scattered, and I will show Myself Holy
among you in the sight of the nations. 42 Then you will know that I am
YHVH, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with
uplifted hand to give to your fathers ,.. 44 You will know that I am
YHVH, when I deal with you for My Name's sake and not according to your
evil ways and your corrupt practices, O house of Israel, declares
YHVH.'"

July.
27, 2007

2 years
after: Unbelievable! - and the nation and the world is silent once
again as in the Holocaust

According to a
report by the Gush Katif Committee: Thirty-seven percent of the
settlers are still out of work, although Matzliah disputes that as too low
a figure. Some 500 families are on welfare. And since many residents don’t
have jobs, they are spending their compensation checks on daily needs
rather than saving to build a home. Less than one percent of the settlers
have started building permanent housing and most could be living in
temporary accomodations for another five years.

The Ministry of Commerce says family income has decreased
by 40 percent, with many receiving no income for two years. Young people
face large gaps in their education, scarred from the trauma of eviction
and switching schools several times.

Gaza’s Jewish communities once provided a high percentage
of Israel’s agricultural produce, but of the 400 farms and other
agricultural businesses that once operated in Gush Katif, only 33 have
been compensated with land inside Israel.

Gush Katifians held liable
for their bonds on their destroyed homes and now sued by their former
Arab employees!

After the Israeli government
have turned their backs on Gush Katif residents who not only had their
homes bulldozed, but were also left helpless while Banks insist on their
Bond repayments - they are now faced with being sued by their formerArab
employees for lost employment, while the government once again
turn their backs on them!

(IsraelNN.com) The government authority SELA, which was formed to assist
Gush Katif expellees, has ruled that former farmers will have to fend
for themselves in lawsuits filed by former Arab workers for reparations.
SELA explained that government compensation does not cover damages
claimed by Arab workers although SELA still has not provided many of the
farmers with permanent housing or work.

Investigative journalist David Bedein explained the situation to Mark
Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Bedein asked the Prime
Minister to intervene after SELA said it would not help the expelled
farmers. Regev turned the matter over to government spokesman David
Baker, who insisted, "I am sure SELA will be of assistance to you, as
always."

Bedein tried once more and wrote, "The question remains: Since the
ministerial responsibility over SELA lies with the Prime Minister of
Israel, will the Prime Minister overrule this decision of SELA to assist
the farmers who by no fault of their own fired their Arab workers? And
if not, why not?"

Baker replied in a one sentence letter, "Thank you for
utilizing the services of SELA."

Jan. 5, 2009

The
Gaza War

BIBLE REVELATIONS Commentary -After 8 years of turning a blind
eye to Palestinian rocket attacks on civilian towns in Southern Israel,
it has become particularly unbearable towards the end of the year 2008,
for right thinking Israelis why their government would not defend
neither protect them against the constant Qassam rocket attacks from
Palestinians in Gaza. The argument was always, that these are
crude rockets which generally did not hit any targets. But if it
did, you were certainly dead. Children and citizens were as much fearing
of these constant bombardments than those Palestinians whom the news
media so love to feature daily and hourly in their desperate attempts to
blacken the Israeli Jewish nation.

Theories why they reluctantly now
turned to drastic action against Gaza, abound in Israel. There is
an election pending for 10 February- and already the charts have turned
favourably back towards the lame duck leftist government who already had
lost the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006 - a first ever for
modern Israel. It is also quite apparent that both the USA and the
Israeli government would prefer to deal with 'moderate' (yet as blood
thirsty and Jew-hating) Fatah which had been deposed by the outspoken
terrorist Hamas elected government of Gaza - the result therefore, still
spelling the end of Jewish Israel, which would be left bereft of their
Divine Inheritance, the Promised Land. which they would then be sharing
with a terrorist nation who's true aims are a Land free from Jews
altogether.

What the government of Israel
desperately tries to conceal, is their fatal blunder with the
'Disengagement' from Gush Katif in August 2005 (as reviewed on this Web
page) which has now come back to haunt them. Either in
collaboration or through sheer ignorance, the world media, in their
reporting of the Gaza war, conceals the fact that the Israeli ground
forces have now, 3,5 years later, invaded Gush Katif again. The
fact is concealed by referring to the invaded sector as "Gaza", and
quoting the new Palestinian names for the former Gush Katif towns where
the land battles are now fiercely fought. This fact can be easily
confirmed by comparing the news media maps with the Gush Katif map at
the top of this Page.

The current much opposed (by the world) troop entry into
"Gaza" is confirming that the Israeli government can no longer conceal
their dilemma. It now requires the mighty Israeli army and ground
troops risking their lives, to undo the "Disengagement of Gush Katif"
when Jews were forcibly evicted out of their homes and farms in order to
give the Land to the Palestinians who have created their rocket launch
bases on the once profitable farm lands conquered by the Jews from the
deserts and wilderness.

This leads to a third consideration then, why Israel has
waited so long to defend their civilian population. They are no
doubt aware, and petrified, that their return to Gush Katif to stop the
bombing would force them to re-occupy the land and thus to admit their
great blunder with Gush Katif.

Of course, enter the sovereign Will and Plan of the God
of Israel. Time will shortly reveal if this is His Way of forcing
Israel back to their Biblical land and to stop the Israeli government
from further disposing of their sacred Inheritance by exchanging it for
a false promise of Peace - as exactly was the case with Gush Katif.

The following news report in one of Israel's leftist
daily's appeared on the 2nd day after the land invasion into "Gaza".
It is a heart rendering wake-up call to all the deceived Israelis and
the opposing world out there who are siding against the Divine Intention
with the Land of israel under Jewish rule.

'We
lost our homes for nothing,' says reservist from former Gaza settlement"

Three years after being evacuated from settlements in the Gaza Strip,
some of the evacuees are now returning - in uniform.

Aharon Cruz, a paratroops officer, lived in Netzarim for two years
before
the disengagement. On Sunday, he and his unit, to which he had been
recalled a mere day after his wedding last Thursday, were back at the
settlement's ruins in central Gaza. (Ed. reflecting the disdain that the
rulers of Israel have for the instructions of Torah not to involve a
newly wed shortly after marriage!)

"On one hand, there's a feeling of 'what did we leave for?'" said his
father, Rabbi Ze'ev Cruz. "On the other hand, there's joy that he is
returning to a place he knows."

The ground operation has aroused strong feelings among the evacuees.
Some see it as a first step toward returning to their former homes. But
most simply want to shout "we told you so!" And the feelings are
intensified among those who have sons serving in Gaza.

"It's a very difficult feeling," said Ami Shaked, former chief security
officer of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, whose son is a paratrooper.
"This is the first war in which my son is defending me instead of me,
him."

But beyond that, "everything we said then has come true. What is
happening today reopens the wounds. The thought arises that perhaps we
shouldn't have given in; perhaps we should have been more insistent,
ratcheted up the struggle another notch. But that's history."

Yossi Neuman, a reserve officer in Southern Command who once lived in
Neve Dekalim, was called up over a week ago. His son Itai, a tank
commander, called him yesterday from the ruins of Netzarim.

"It's a destructive feeling," Neuman said. "I'm here on an emergency
call-up and my son is fighting for what we once had. We said missiles
would haunt Ashkelon and they said we were delusional. We lost our homes
and our lives for nothing, for nothing at all in exchange. And in the
end, we're returning to fight there."

For many evacuees, the feelings were heightened by the news that the son
of Zvika Bar-Hai - a West Bank settler who was one of the leaders of the
fight against disengagement - was seriously wounded on the first day of
the ground operation.

But the army's return to Netzarim was particularly emotional for former
residents of that settlement. "I got text messages that said 'stop
everything, we'll soon be back,'" said one, Itzik Vazana. "We're hoping
for
the day when we return. I think we've come a long way from the expulsion
until today. We've made a big circle, and in the end, we're returning to
Netzarim. Tomorrow morning we won't return to the settlement, but it's a
process that will ripen slowly."

"It's a stab in the heart," added another, Eliyahu Ozen. "Today it is
clear
that when I lived in Netzarim, I was the country's flak jacket. Today, I
live with the feeling that I did my job. Too bad they didn't want it any
more."

Gulf Oil well Disaster could kill world's oceans

- is this
continuing Divine Retribution?

A confidential US
government report on the unfolding oil spill disaster after the
explosion of the Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, is preparing for
the worst scenario. If not contained (which seems unlikely at the
moment - and this, at best, could take months, by which time much of the
oceans of the world could be polluted), it is widely acclaimed as mankind's
greatest disaster ever. Bible commentators are conjecturing that
this could be the fulfilment of a Biblical Prophecy in

Revelation 8:8--9 which says,
"The
second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain,
all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into
blood, a third of the living creatures in
the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed."

This catastrophe has
happened, merely some 50 miles off the New Orleans Coast line.
Could this be continued Divine retribution for the USA's part in August
2005 (at the time of Katrina) for pressuring Israel to disenfranchise
1800 Israeli families (9000 people) from their homes, farms and
businesses in Gush Katif?
Most of these families today, 5 years later, are still without
permanent homes and riddled with financial and psychological problems -
just as the residents of New Orleans who lost their homes in Katrina,
are still suffering the consequences. And now authorities in USA
are preparing emergency evacuation of 40 million residents from the
badly and increasing land and air polluted areas affected by the spill.

To follow and
understand this projected Retribution possibility, be sure to read the
entire Gush Katif report here above.

The Oil rig which initially exploded,
was a modern marvel, the cutting edge of drilling
technology. The flames, 200 – 300 ft high, were visible up to about 35
miles away. It could well have fitted the prophet's view 2000 years ago,
as "something
like a huge mountain, all ablaze, thrown into the sea"
It burned up in 2 days and sunk, with the well gushing oil at a rate for which estimates
increased from an initial 40,000 gallons per day to a government panel
of scientists estimate of between 1,47 million gallons and 2.5 million
gallons of oil per day (15 June, 2010 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow
)

Exactly as described in the 2000 year
old Prophecy of the End Time, the colour of this oil floating in the sea
is not black but reddish! Sea creatures are fleeing and dying, and
the sea currents are now dragging the spill towards the East coast of
the USA. Scientific charts predict it to reach Europe if not
stopped. Many scientists have declared the pressure power behind
this rupture as beyond the capabilities of mankind to stop. An
option to plug the hole using a nuclear explosion is being considered.
Some scientist warn that this, or an explosion of the huge gas bubble
building up below the surface of the sea, could create a gigantic
tsunami

The situation is gradually worsening
and if not plugged, an open could become "the mother
of all gushers, which could kill earth's oceans!"

While speculation is rife and thus a
call for caution, there are many responsible calls and conjectures to
even include the Prophetic forecast of "a third of the ships to be
destroyed.' This could result from conjectures that not only oil
but poisonous and explosive gasses are also escaping, building up an
underwater plume which could explode to produce a monstrous tsunami.

BIBLE REVELATIONS try and avoid
speculative fear mongering which is so common amongst religious
followers. Yet, it realizes its responsibility to proclaim the
truly fearful warnings of the Bible against a godless world. In
this spirit, we refer you to some sources which should be taken note of,
even if it seems extreme:

June 14, 2012 - 7 years later and the Gush Katif Saga is continuing
relentlessly!

Seven years later! Gush Katif has turned into a
Palestinian terrorist training ground after the eviction of Jews from
their lush farm production there. It has become the launch pad for
missiles into Southern Israel. And continually the Israeli government
throws Jews out of their homes in settlement areas. They are now intent
on demolishing apartment buildings and homes in Beith El areas.
There is talk of moving 900 families out of their homes in
Shomron!

This dictatorial actions of the Israeli government is
flaunted all in the name of 'democracy' and 'law abidance' - so
convincingly, that the major part of the nation falls for it.
Seven years of family destruction in Gush Katif. and many expellees are
still without promised home replacement or compensation. Yet, the
nation seems to believe the new promises to forthcoming evictees.

This is all beyond the absurd - so much so, that latest
revelations have uncovered Rabbinic Prophecies from the Babylonian
Talmud about these chaotic conditions preceding the Arrival of the
ruling Messiah ben David in Israel.

Expellee families have new jobs, new schools, but nowhere to live as
government reassigns their new caravan homes to Beit El.

Maayana Miskin, June 8, 2012

The government’s plan to demolish homes in Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood
threatens to leave more than one set of families homeless. In addition
to the 30 families facing eviction in Beit El, 40 young families of Gush
Katif expellees are facing the prospect of another year in the temporary
caravan sites that have become long-term homes.

The young families were told they could start a long-awaited mass
relocation to the Lachish region and would be given 40 mobile homes to
stay in while they wait for construction of permanent homes. The
families underwent the complicated process of finding work in the
Lachish region and registering their children to local schools.

Then, just weeks before the move was to take place, government officials
informed them that the mobile homes they had been promised would be
taken to Beit El instead, to be used as housing for the more than 140
people facing eviction.

“It’s adding insult to injury,” said Eitan Ben-Hor, a member of the
administrative committee for the planned Lachish-region town Bnei
Dekalim.

“We’re families who want to move forward to permanent communities – not
to have things easy, but to sacrifice in order to push things forward,”
he said. “Suddenly at the last second they take the caravans in order to
expel other people.”

“I’m not disappointed,” he added. “As someone from Gush Katif I don’t
expect too much from the state. But I’m shocked by the lack of
compassion. There are really no words to describe it.”

Let's take a look at the big picture, the picture of what is really
going on here.

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin
97a
"It was taught, Rabbi Yehudah said: In the generation when the
son of David comes, the house of assembly will be for harlots,
the Galilee will be in ruins, Gablan will lie desolate, *the
residents from the border towns will wander about from city to
city, receiving no comfort* (hospitality), the wisdom of scribes
will be in disfavour, God-fearing men will be despised, people
will be dog-faced, and the truth will be absent, as it is said,
"And the truth is absent, and he who withdraws from evil makes
himself prey." (Isaiah 59:15)

Is the Galilee in ruins, from *Hizbullah's* missiles? Does the Gablan
lie desolate from the same? Has the wisdom of the sages of today been
rejected? Are God-fearing men despised? Has the truth disappeared (into
spread out sections)?

Clearly they have not found rest or comfort over the seven years.
Furthermore, many of the residents of Elei Sinai were already expelled
once, from Yamit in the Sinai.

Our "rule of thumb," so to speak, is that negative prophecies do not
have to be fulfilled, not if we do 'teshuvah' (repentance). But,
teshuvah is not just saying we're sorry. It's not just asking for
forgiveness. It's not just having regret.

It's also about changing our behaviour, and making a commitment to do
our best not to repeat our same mistakes again.

In order to do this, we must first determine what those mistakes are.

Let's think back seven years in *Azza*. There was very little
resistance, and the little resistance was undermined by the *YeShA*
Council.

Now, let's look at Beth-El, where even one of it's own "rabbis" says
that he won't participate in any protests.